What About Darfur?

(08 July 09 - RV) Irish negotiators arrived in Sudan’s Darfur region on Monday to help free two female aid workers from the international humanitarian agency GOAL who were kidnapped from their base by armed men.

Hilda Kawuki from Uganda and Sharon Commins from Dublin were seized by up to eight armed men from their compound in the north Darfur town of Kutum on Friday evening  -- the third time foreign aid workers have been abducted in Darfur in four months. CEO of the aid group GOAL John O’Shea told us more about the situation on the ground: