NGO Gandhi highlights plight of kidnapped refugees in Sinai

(Vatican Radio) Vatican Radio was host on Monday to an advocate for refugees from the NGO GANDHI, Dr. Alganesh Fessaha, who told of hundreds of refugees from Eritrea captured by Sudanese security forces and sold to Bedouin tribesmen in the Sinai peninsula, who hold the refugees for ransom and subject them to gruesome treatment. “[The Bedouin kidnappers] torture them, and the girls are raped,” said Dr. Fessaha, who went on to explain that her organization estimates that roughly two hundred-fifty people are currently being held for ransom. The NGO Gandhi is a nongovernmental organization established in 2003 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It was founded by a group of private African citizens (doctors, university professors, professionals) with the express purpose of raising public awareness about the problem of total abandonment of children and adolescents and the plight of women. Listen to Chris Altieri’s extended conversation with Dr. Alganesh Fessaha of the NGO GANDHI: