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Tue 07 Jul 2010Aid workers freed in Darfur

Two German aid workers kidnapped in Darfur more than a month ago were released today and said on arrival in Khartoum that they had been well treated by their captors.

Malthe Golla and Werner Stern were snatched on June 22nd from their residence in the South Darfur capital Nyala, where they were working for Technisches Hilfswerk (THW).