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Red Cross: Abducted South Sudanese Aid Workers Released

by VOA News

   Ten aid workers kidnapped by an armed group in South Sudan last week
   have been released, according to the [1]International Committee of the
   Red Cross.

   The ICRC said in a statement that it transported the 10 - all South
   Sudanese workers -- by air from a site near the town of Yei to the
   capital, Juba, on Monday.

   The Red Cross said it provided the transportation "with the consent of
   all the parties involved," but played no role in negotiations for the
   workers' release.

   The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA,
   reported the workers missing and presumed kidnapped last Wednesday.
   OCHA said their convoy was headed from Yei to Tore County to conduct a
   humanitarian needs assessment at the time.

   The missing workers were from OCHA, along with the U.N. children's
   agency or UNICEF, the Association of Christian Resources Serving Sudan,
   known as ACROSS, Action Africa Help, Plan International, and the South
   Sudanese Development Organization, or SSDO.

   Aid workers are often targeted by armed groups in South Sudan, which
   has been in the midst of a war between supporters of President Salva
   Kiir and those of his former deputy, Riek Machar, since 2013.

References

   1. https://www.icrc.org/en