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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. Subscribe You are here: Home > News > International > Article Home Business & Finance News U.S. Politics International Technology Entertainment Sports Lifestyle Oddly Enough Health Science Special Coverage Video Pictures Your View The Great Debate Blogs Weather Reader Feedback Do More With Reuters RSS Widgets Mobile Podcasts Newsletters Your View Make Reuters My Homepage Partner Services CareerBuilder Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters Peacekeeping civilians kidnapped in Darfur Sat Aug 29, 2009 11:05am EDT Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] By Andrew Heavens KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Armed men seized two foreign civilians working for Darfur's peacekeeping force on Saturday, the fourth kidnapping in the remote Sudanese region since March. "They were abducted by armed men from their residence in Zalingei. The incident took place in the early hours of this morning," UNAMID spokesman Noureddine Mezni told Reuters. It was the first time international staff from the joint United Nations/African Union force had been abducted, he said. The kidnappers made contact with the peacekeepers soon after the abduction. "They told us of their willingness to talk to UNAMID," Mezni said, without giving details of their demands. Sudan's State Minister for Humanitarian Affairs Abdel Baqi al-Jailani told Reuters the kidnap victims were a Nigerian man and a Tanzanian woman, saying the kidnappers were bandits. "They have asked for a ransom. They never claimed to be some sort of rebels," Jailani said. The kidnapping, in Zalingei in the western part of Darfur, happened two days after the departing commander of the force, Martin Luther Agwai, told reporters that Darfur suffered from banditry but was no longer in a state of war. Aid workers say they have experienced increased hostility in the region since the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on war crimes charges. Khartoum ordered out 13 foreign groups and shut down three local ones after the ICC issued its warrant in March, accusing them of passing information to the court, which they deny. Two women from Irish charity GOAL remain in captivity after being snatched in early July. Another aid worker is missing after a raid just over Darfur's border in neighboring Chad this month. Zalingei, around 100 km (60 miles) from the Chadian border, is the birthplace of some of Darfur's best-known rebels, including Sudan Liberation Army founder Abdel Wahed Mohamed Ahmed al-Nur, and is a hotbed of anti-government sentiment. Al-Nur, who is now based in Paris, denied that any of his rebel fighters were responsible for the kidnap, and pointed the finger at government-allied militias. "This is not our behavior. We are a responsible movement. We fight against terrorists and this kidnapping is a terrorist act," he said. "This is the continuation of the government's campaign to terrorize people on the ground. They want to complicate the mission of anyone helping the people of Darfur." Jailani denied government-backed militias were involved. Continued... View article on single page Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx Yahoo! Facebook LinkedIn Next Article: Iran calls for regional meeting on Iraq security Special Coverage: The Drug War Home-grown addicts Drug gangs in Guatemala are paying runners and hitmen with cocaine, driving a growing local market and leaving a trail of addicts in a country already wracked by poverty and crime. 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