Kidnapping Documented

Seven aid workers kidnapped in Kalma Refugee Camp

Kalma Refugee Camp, Beliel, South Darfur, Sudan International NGO
7 kidnapped

7 INGO (6 national, 1 international) staff were held hostage by a group of over 40 former INGO IDP casual workers in INGO compound in Kalma camp while conducting a meeting. The staff were released only after making written promises to meet the demands of the ex-workers and to return to Kalma on Monday, 31 July 2006. Means of attack recorded as kidnapping. Context raid. Source: Aid Worker Security Database, incident 749.

People involved

No names have been released for this case.