According to a relative, the veteran journalist died at a hospital in Kampala, Uganda, on Saturday. Until his death, Taban was a member of parliament representing Kajo-Keji County and also the head of Information and Communications for the National Dialogue. Having trained as a laboratory technician, Taban embarked on a career in broadcast journalism and later became BBC correspondent. Alfred Taban was the founder and former editor-in-chief of Khartoum Monitor, the 1st independent English-Language Newspaper in Sudan. After the country’s independent in 2011, Taban renamed Khartoum Monitor, the Juba Monitor.