Irish, Ugandan aid workers freed in Darfur

KHARTOUM, Sudan – A Sudanese government official says two foreign aid workers held hostage for more than three months in the Darfur region have been released by their captors.

Sudan's state minister for humanitarian affairs, Abdel-Baqi al-Jailani, says the Irish and Ugandan women freed Saturday morning are in good health and are having medical checkups at a hospital in northern Darfur.

Al-Jailani told The Associated Press that no ransom was paid to the kidnappers, who seized the two women at gunpoint on July 3.

The Irish woman, Sharon Commins, and her Ugandan colleague, Hilda Kuwuki, work for Irish humanitarian aid agency GOAL.