Information and Telecommunications Minister Al-Zahawi Ibrahim Malik said Sudan is in talks with Canar but had not agreed on a price.

She led him to the main cabin, which was quite sumptuously decorated -the Letherii merchant Luthal Canar seemed to have valued his creature comforts.

'I am Luthal Canar, of the Canar trading house, of Lether.'

'Then in the name of King Luthal Canar of Goldland, I-

'King Luthal Canar -the new king of these lands.

Canar had 316,770 subscribers as of March 31, data from the country's telecom regulator shows.