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,...
News Source: Summit Daily News
| 29 days ago
A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur” will visit the Summit Campus of Colorado Mountain College to talk about his book and sign copies on Wednesday, Nov. 4. “The Translator” is this year's Common Reader book across the college district, a program...
News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 month ago
As chief of the region’s largest Arab tribe, Hilal is a man who inspires awe and fear in equal measure. His allies speak of him in reverential tones, testament to the considerable clout he wields both in Darfur and Khartoum. But for others in the...