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Sudan Gunmen Say They Freed Two Western Aid Workers

Bloomberg News
29 April 2009
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=afSzTCIFEhmQ

NAIROBI - Gunmen said they freed two Western aid workers who were kidnapped in Sudan’s Darfur region on April 4, and a Sudanese foreign ministry official confirmed the claim.

“We released them,” a man identifying himself as Abu Mohamed El-Rizeigi, a spokesman for a group calling itself the Falcons for the Liberation of Africa, said in a satellite telephone interview from Darfur. “They are free.”

The women were released today “for humanitarian reasons” and “to give France a chance,” El-Rizeigi said.

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