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Fri 07 Jul 2009Hostage release effort continues
A delegation of Irish diplomats and negotiators is doing everything possible to secure the freedom of an Irish aid worker and her Ugandan colleague in Sudan, Goal chief executive John O'Shea said today.
Sharon Commins (32), from Clontarf, Dublin, and Hilda Kuwuki (42), both of whom work for the Irish aid agency, were seized by up to eight armed men who forced their way into the Goal compound in Kutum, a town in north Darfur, last Friday evening.
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