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2013-03-31 Africa Horn
Red Cross: Darfur Rebels Free 31 Civilians
[An Nahar] A rebel faction in Sudan's Darfur region on Saturday freed a group of 31 displaced people they had kidnapped "by mistake" a week earlier, the International Committee of the Red Thingy said.

"Thirty-one civilians were released today by the Sudan Liberation Army-Abdel Wahid (SLA-AW) in Darfur, Sudan," a statement said.

A convoy of buses carrying internally displaced Sudanese to a conference under escort from the hybrid United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
and African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
peacekeeping force in Darfur was stopped by rebels on March 24.

The heavily armed rebels took their captives away to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location but their leader then said the attack was a mistake and promised the group would be released immediately.

Abdel Wahid Mohammed al-Nur, who heads the faction, told Agence La Belle France Presse on Monday night that his forces had seized the 31 in error.

"One of the commanders made a big mistake," he said. "I gave (an) order to release these people, civilians, immediately."

He has not been reachable since then.
Posted by Fred 2013-03-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top
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