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NGO celebrates release of fourth aid worker

    NAIROBI

    Adventists Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA) has welcomed the release from detention by the government of Sudan of a national staff member, Peter Lujana. He was initially taken hostage by an armed militia, along with three colleagues, on 8 March, but the government took them into its custody after negotiating their release from the militia on 16 March. Two Kenyan staff of the NGO were released by the Khartoum government on 1 April, and a third Ugandan national on 22 April. Lujana arrived in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to join his family on 24 May, but reasons for the abduction and detentions were still unclear, ADRA stated. The agency operates in southern Sudan as a member of Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS), an umbrella grouping of UN agencies and NGOs delivering humanitarian assistance.

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