News Source: Times Online
| about 1 month ago
Sharon Commins who was released on Sunday with her colleague Hilda Kawuki fromt he Irish agency Goal, said her first priority was to sleep in a proper bed and eat her favourite foods. "I've been craving eggs Benedict since day seven so I'm going to...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
In an emotional reunion, she hugged her parents, Mark and Agatha, and the rest of her family and expressed her pleasure at being home, according to the spokesman, who was at the airport at the time. Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin, who...
News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 month ago
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 AID worker Sharon Commins arrived home late last night after a terrible few months. Ms Commins’s kidnap ordeal, and that of Hilda Kawuki, stretched over 107 days. They were snatched from their Goal compound in Darfur by an...
News Source: The independent
| about 1 month ago
Irish aid worker Sharon Commins arrived back in Dublin last night, free at last after three and a half months as a hostage of bandits in the mountains of Darfur, in western Sudan. Ms Commins, 32, and her Ugandan colleague Hilda Kawuki, 42, were...
News Source: The Observer
| about 1 month ago
Aid worker tells of mock executions staged by her kidnappers in Dafur • Former captive talks of captors' anger • Friendship 'kept abducted women strong' Sharon Commins, the Irish aid worker who was kidnapped in Darfur, arrives at Khartoum...
News Source: Reuters
| about 1 month ago
Two Darfur aid workers held captive on a harsh mountaintop on the remote Sudan-Chad border for 107 days said they felt anger at mock assassinations by their captors but clung to the hope they would be released. Nomadic tribesmen stormed the compound...