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Fri 07 Jul 2009Sudan confident aid workers will be released
AUTHORITIES IN Sudan are confident they will be able to secure within days the release of an Irish aid worker and her Ugandan colleague kidnapped last week in Darfur, a Sudanese government minister has told The Irish Times.
Abdul-Bagi al-Jailani, Sudan’s minister for humanitarian affairs, said negotiations were continuing after contact had been made with those responsible for abducting Sharon Commins (32), from Clontarf, Dublin, and Hilda Kawuki (42), both of whom work for Irish aid agency Goal.
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