Gunmen kidnap 3 UN employees in Sudan

Armed men have kidnapped three UN refugee employer employees, along with two foreigners, from Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur location, a neighborhood authorities reliable advised AFP on Monday.


two Nepalese and a Sudanese national operating for UNHCR were kidnapped Sunday in Geneina, the capital of West Darfur country.

“a collection of armed guys abducted the day gone by three UNHCR people, two Nepalese and a Sudanese, from Geneina,” Abdelah Mustafa, spokesman for the country government of West Darfur advised AFP.

“Police are attempting to find the kidnappers.”


UNHCR officials had been now not straight away to be had for comment, however its spokesman in Khartoum told AFP by way of textual content message that a assembly was underway to discuss the “pressing incident”.

Darfur has been engulfed in a lethal battle on account that 2003 while ethnic minority corporations took up fingers against President Omar al-Bashir’s Arab-ruled government, which launched a brutal counter-insurgency.

At the least 300,000 human beings were killed and 2.5 million displaced in Darfur seeing that then, the UN says.

Bashir is wanted by means of the global criminal court docket on conflict crimes and genocide prices associated with Darfur, which he denies.

Sudan insists that the war in Darfur has ended, and that it needs UN peacekeepers who have been deployed inside the vicinity the size of France considering 2007 to depart.