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UNICEF to probe slavery issue

    NAIROBI

    The NGO Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) said it had bought the freedom of another 300 women and children enslaved in Sudan, BBC reported yesterday. It said the freed slaves were part of a group of 600 women seized in raids by government troops and allied Popular Defence Forces militia. Last month, CSW said it had bought the freedom of more than 1,000 women enslaved during raids near Wau. BBC quoted a spokesman as saying the organisation had paid about US $50 per person.

    Meanwhile, a UNICEF spokesman in Geneva told IRIN today that UNICEF would carry out a study on slavery in Sudan. The Sudanese government had asked the UN agency to look into the slavery allegations, he added.

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