Wed Apr 21, 2010
The release of four South African peacekeepers abducted in Sudan's Darfur region will take place after the country's election results are out, captors say.
"We will release them after the results of the elections," Ibrahim al-Dukki, of the People's Democratic Struggle Movement, told AFP on the phone.
Four members of the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping mission, UNAMID, were kidnapped in Sudan's Darfur region on April 11.
Dukki's group had asked for $400,000 to release the hostages. The group says the main reason for the abductions was "to show the international community that security conditions in Darfur do not allow for elections."
The abductions came as Sudan was holding its first competitive elections after more than two decades.
Election observers from the European Union had pulled out of war-torn Darfur due to what they deemed as insecurity.
Darfur has been gripped by civil war since 2003. Over the past year, the region has also seen a wave of kidnappings.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/123930.html.
The release of four South African peacekeepers abducted in Sudan's Darfur region will take place after the country's election results are out, captors say.
"We will release them after the results of the elections," Ibrahim al-Dukki, of the People's Democratic Struggle Movement, told AFP on the phone.
Four members of the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping mission, UNAMID, were kidnapped in Sudan's Darfur region on April 11.
Dukki's group had asked for $400,000 to release the hostages. The group says the main reason for the abductions was "to show the international community that security conditions in Darfur do not allow for elections."
The abductions came as Sudan was holding its first competitive elections after more than two decades.
Election observers from the European Union had pulled out of war-torn Darfur due to what they deemed as insecurity.
Darfur has been gripped by civil war since 2003. Over the past year, the region has also seen a wave of kidnappings.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/123930.html.
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