Sudan, NGOs working for the release of aid workers

Sudan's Commissioner-General for the Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) Suluf al-Din Salih last week announced that the organisation is to coordinate a campaign to work for the release of 13 Sudanese nationals, working with voluntary organisations, who have been detained by rebel militias. The Sudanese news agency SUNA quoted Al-Din Salih as saying he had formed a committee to this effect which would launch an international
campaign to oblige all parties to the conflict to commit themselves to international conventions. A UN official told IRIN on Thursday he had heard of the idea to launch such a campaign but was not aware of the number of detained workers, nor of the stage at which the "idea" currently stood.