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Kidnapped aid workers free

Khartoum : Sudan | about 1 month ago  
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We do not know where we are," said the Canadian hostage, who identified herself as Stephanie Joidon, over a satellite phone. Armed men had kidnapped the pair, who work for French aid group Aide Medicale Internationale, from their office in South Darfur's capital Nyala, about 100 kilometres (65 miles)...
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  • News Source: Kuwait Times | 29 days ago
    After robberies and carjackings, Darfur "bandits" have turned to kidnapping foreign workers as a way to make easy money, promising to further hamper the already difficult job of humanitarian agencies in the war-torn region. "They used to hijack...
  • News Source: Daily Nation | 29 days ago
    The abduction took place just days after the release of two women working for the Irish aid agency Goal who had been held for more than 100 days on a mountain in Darfur. They said their kidnappers told them they just wanted money.
  • News Source: South Africa News | 29 days ago
    We do not know where we are," said the Canadian hostage, who identified herself as Stephanie Joidon, over a satellite phone. Armed men had kidnapped the pair, who work for French aid group Aide Medicale Internationale, from their office in South...
  • News Source: News 24 | 29 days ago
    Dublin -A $225 000 ransom was paid to secure the release of two aid workers in Sudan's western Darfur region, the Irish Times newspaper reported on Saturday. Irish national Sharon Commins and Ugandan Hilda Kawuki, who worked for Irish charity GoalL,...
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  • Blog Source: blog.taragana.com
    Sudanese and Irish authorities say the bandits demanded a ransom but received no money. Commins and Kuwuki were held the longest of three groups of foreign aid workers kidnapped in Sudan's war-torn western border since March. ...
  • Blog Source: www.washingtonexaminer.com
    A freed Irish aid worker held captive for three months in Darfur said Monday that her captors terrorized her and a Ugandan friend by repeatedly staging their mock executions using live gunfire. ... Commins and Kuwuki were held the longest of three
  • Blog Source: www.sofmag.com
    Two civilian workers from the joint United Nations and African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, kidnapped in Zalingi in West Darfur, remain in captivity. Rebel groups in Darfur took up arms against the government in 2003, ...
  • Blog Source: sudanwatch.blogspot.com
    Two aid workers who had been kidnapped in Sudan's Darfur region have been released by their captors, reports say. Irish citizen Sharon Commins, 32, and her Ugandan colleague Hilda Kawuki, 42, were working for the Irish charity Goal when ...
  • Blog Source: www.afriquecentrale.info
    Two aid workers kidnapped in Darfur in July set free. Two members of Irish aid agency GOAL kidnapped at gunpoint in Sudan's Darfur region in July were freed early Sunday after more than 100 days in captivity, a Sudanese minister said. ... Irish
  • Blog Source: www.theepochtimes.com
    Two kidnapped aid workers were released on Sunday in Darfur after more than 100 days in captivity.
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