KHARTOUM, Sudan (Reuters) — Armed men seized two foreign civilians working for Darfur’s peacekeeping force on Saturday, the fourth kidnapping in the remote Sudanese region since March.
“They were abducted by armed men from their residence in Zalingei,” said Noureddine Mezni, a spokesman for the force. “The incident took place in the early hours of this morning.”
It was the first time international staff members from the joint United Nations and African Union force, known as Unamid, had been abducted, he said.
The kidnappers made contact with the peacekeepers soon after the abduction. “They told us of their willingness to talk to Unamid,” Mr. Mezni said. He added that the kidnappers were seeking ransom money, but he gave no further details of the demands.
Sudan’s state minister for humanitarian affairs, Abdel Baqi al-Jailani, said the kidnap victims were a Nigerian man and a Tanzanian woman.
حركة العدل و المساواة السودانية
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