What is the best way to save Darfur??
source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101105/wl_africa_afp/sudanunrestdarfurkidnap
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KHARTOUM (AFP) – Gunmen kidnapped three Latvian helicopter crew members working for the World Food Programme in the troubled Sudanese state of South Darfur, a hotspot for abductions, the UN agency said on Friday.
The WFP said the three Latvians, whose air services were contracted to the agency for humanitarian operations, were abducted in the state capital of Nyala on Thursday.
In Riga, the foreign ministry said it was coordinating in efforts to secure the release of the three Latvians.
"We are working closely with Latvia's appropriate institutions and our foreign partners to find out more detailed information on how we can resolve that problem," foreign ministry spokesman Janis Silis told AFP.
Abdel Hamid Kasha, the governor of South Darfur, had previously said the three were Russians.
"Last night, unidentified gunmen stormed the home of three Russian pilots working for a private company that has a contract with the WFP and took them to an unknown location," he said.
"The security services searched for the kidnappers until nightfall" without success, said the governor.
The three kidnapped crewmen are employees of Latvian company GM Helicopters, said the Russian consul in Khartoum, Yevgeny Arzhantsev, quoted by Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency. "There are no Russians among the hostages."
UN sources said the crew was made up of two pilots and a mechanic.
KHARTOUM (AFP) – Gunmen kidnapped three Latvian helicopter crew members working for the World Food Programme in the troubled Sudanese state of South Darfur, a hotspot for abductions, the UN agency said on Friday.
The WFP said the three Latvians, whose air services were contracted to the agency for humanitarian operations, were abducted in the state capital of Nyala on Thursday.
In Riga, the foreign ministry said it was coordinating in efforts to secure the release of the three Latvians.
"We are working closely with Latvia's appropriate institutions and our foreign partners to find out more detailed information on how we can resolve that problem," foreign ministry spokesman Janis Silis told AFP.
Abdel Hamid Kasha, the governor of South Darfur, had previously said the three were Russians.
"Last night, unidentified gunmen stormed the home of three Russian pilots working for a private company that has a contract with the WFP and took them to an unknown location," he said.
"The security services searched for the kidnappers until nightfall" without success, said the governor.
The three kidnapped crewmen are employees of Latvian company GM Helicopters, said the Russian consul in Khartoum, Yevgeny Arzhantsev, quoted by Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency. "There are no Russians among the hostages."
UN sources said the crew was made up of two pilots and a mechanic.
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