Darfur rebels hold 16 hostage
05/06/2004 16:33  - (SA)  

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Khartoum - Rebels in Sudan's troubled western Darfur region took 16 UN aid workers hostage on Saturday, the Sudanese minister of state for foreign affairs, Nejib al-Khari Abdel Wahab, said.

Abdel Wahab said the aid workers, all employees of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), were abducted by rebels of the Sudan Liberation Movement in the Darfur region.

He said that the United Nations has made contact with the rebels, adding that they have admitted that they are holding the aid workers and promised to release them.

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