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Two kidnapped aid workers freed in Darfur - official


    KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Two kidnapped aid workers from the Irish agency Goal were released on Sunday in Sudan's troubled Darfur region after more than 100 days in captivity, a government official said.

    "They were released earlier this morning," Sudan's state minister for humanitarian affairs, Abdel Baqi al-Jailani told Reuters.

    (Reporting by Opheera McDoom; Editing by Charles Dick)