New York - Four United Nations peacekeepers from South Africa were released Monday after 16 days in captivity in Sudan's Darfur region, the UN said.
The four police advisers, two women and two men, in the UN-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) were abducted in Nyala on April 11. They underwent medical examinations and were flown back to their home country, the UN said.
Ibrahim Gambari, the UNAMID special representative, was in Nyala to greet the four peacekeepers.
"We are grateful to have our colleagues back with us," Gambari said in a statement published at UN headquarters in New York. He said the release was made possible thanks to the intervention of the Khartoum government with the "local authorities" in southern Darfur. The UN did not say who the kidnappers were.
Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/320655,kidnappers-release-four-un-south-african-peacekeepers-in-darfur.html.
The four police advisers, two women and two men, in the UN-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) were abducted in Nyala on April 11. They underwent medical examinations and were flown back to their home country, the UN said.
Ibrahim Gambari, the UNAMID special representative, was in Nyala to greet the four peacekeepers.
"We are grateful to have our colleagues back with us," Gambari said in a statement published at UN headquarters in New York. He said the release was made possible thanks to the intervention of the Khartoum government with the "local authorities" in southern Darfur. The UN did not say who the kidnappers were.
Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/320655,kidnappers-release-four-un-south-african-peacekeepers-in-darfur.html.
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