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Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin has pledged to do everything possible to secure the release of two Goal aid workers missing for almost seven weeks.

Sharon Commins (32), from Clontarf, Dublin, and her Ugandan colleague Hilda Kawuki (42) were taken by a gang of armed men from a Goal compound in north Darfur on July 3rd.