An ICRC says 10 aid workers, who went missing in South Sudan on Friday have been freed from an armed group that detained them in the Yei region southwest of the capital.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said this in a statement on Monday in Geneva.
The ICRC said none of those detained were ICRC staff officials and it was not involved in negotiations for their release, but they were flown in an ICRC aircraft to the capital Juba on Monday.
It will be recalled that ten aid workers have gone missing in the South Sudanese town of Yei, a UN official said April 26, the latest incident involving relief staff in the war-ridden country.
Alain Noudehou, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan, said a convoy of UN and other aid workers had been heading to Tore from Yei, in the Central Equatoria region, early on…
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