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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today joined other United Nations
officials in welcoming the release of two female aid workers who were
abducted in the war-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur over three
months ago.
The Irish and Ugandan staffers, Sharon
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Commins and Hilda Kawuki, were kidnapped by a group of armed men on 2
July while working for the international non-governmental organization
(NGO) GOAL in the state of North Darfur.
In a statement issued
by his spokesperson, Mr. Ban commended “the thousands of humanitarian
personnel working in Sudan for their critical efforts.”
Underscoring the importance of the
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work of humanitarian aid workers, he stressed that the primary
responsibility for the safety and security of all relief and
peacekeeping personnel working in Sudan lies with the Government in
Khartoum.
At the end of August two civilian staff members from
the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping mission, known as UNAMID, were
also abducted from their home in the West Darfur town of Zalingei and
have yet to be released.
Since the conflict in Darfur began in
2003, pitting rebels against Government forces and allied Janjaweed
militia, some 300,000 people are estimated to have been killed through
direct combat or as
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a result of disease, malnutrition or reduced life expectancy, and more
than 2.7 million others have been forced to flee their homes.