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UN: Aid Workers Missing in South Sudan

by VOA News

   Ten aid workers are missing in South Sudan in what a U.N. official
   describes as unclear circumstances.
   The U.N. humanitarian coordinator for South Sudan, Alain Noudehou, said
   the workers disappeared Wednesday as their convoy left Yei town.
   "We are deeply concerned about the whereabouts of these humanitarian
   workers and are urgently seeking information about their well-being,"
   he said.
   The aid workers vanished just days after gunmen took another group of
   humanitarian workers hostage. Noudehou said this is the third time aid
   workers have been abducted by armed groups in the last six months.
   South Sudan is among the world's most dangerous countries for
   humanitarian workers. About 100 have been killed since the beginning of
   the country's civil war in December 2013.
   The government and the opposition have not claimed responsibility for
   the latest disappearance.
   The Associated Press cites Army spokesman Lul Ruai Koang as saying the
   army did not know the workers had gone missing.