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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 Environment 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 Kidnapped aid workers freed in Darfur Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:28am EDT Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] By Andrew Heavens KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Three foreign aid workers kidnapped in Sudan's Darfur region were freed on Saturday by captors who an official said were protesting over an international arrest warrant against the country's president. The aid workers from the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) were seized from their base on Wednesday after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on charges of orchestrating war crimes in Darfur. MSF Belgium's general director Christopher Stokes told a news conference in Brussels MSF had paid no ransom. He said the group was reconsidering its operations at the scene of one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. "We are as a movement...not able today to determine the level at which we are able to maintain our assistance in Darfur. This includes all projects in Darfur," he added. The three were welcomed back in Khartoum by MSF staff late on Saturday. A Sudanese guard held along with them stayed behind in the regional center of El Fasher. North Darfur governor Osman Yusuf Kibir, who accompanied the freed aid workers to Khartoum, said kidnappers calling themselves the Eagles of Bashir had freed them at an agreed site in north Darfur. He told reporters negotiations had begun on Thursday on a telephone number the pro-government kidnappers had left behind. "They said they kidnapped the foreigners for the sake of the nation and they released them for the sake of the nation. It was an expression of their rejection of the unjust measure against the nation's sovereignty and the symbol of the nation," said Kibir, referring to the arrest warrant against Bashir. "We told them if you want to serve the interest of the nation you should release them. Thank god they did, without any ransom. I repeat there was no ransom, and they made no other demands," he said. One of the male hostages appeared on state television, which did not name him. "I just will like to say to everybody we are safe, we are here, we are in good health and we will maybe be more talkative a bit later on," he said. EXPULSIONS The seizure of the three foreign staff along with a Sudanese national sent shockwaves through the region's humanitarian community. MSF identified the kidnapped workers as Canadian nurse Laura Archer, Italian doctor Mauro D'Ascanio, French coordinator Raphael Meunier and Sudanese guard Sharif Mohamadin. A second Sudanese staff member who was originally kidnapped with the group in the north Darfur town of Saraf Omra was released soon after the abduction. Sudan expelled 13 international aid groups from the north of the country after the ICC warrant was issued, accusing them of passing information to the court, an accusation the groups deny. MSF's Dutch and French arms were ordered to leave but its Belgian operation was not expelled. Continued... View article on single page Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx Yahoo! 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