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SUDAN IS considering offering legal immunity to the kidnappers of an Irish aid agency worker and her Ugandan colleague, a Sudanese government minister has told news agency Reuters.

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