British teacher in Sudan has been pardoned: official

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A British teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammad has been pardoned, a Sudanese presidential adviser said on Monday.

Asked whether Gillian Gibbons had been pardoned, the adviser told Reuters by telephone from inside a meeting with Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir: "Definitely, yes."

(Reporting by Opheera McDoom; Writing by Cynthia Johnston)