Floods delay release of workers
NZPA Khartoum Heavy rain and floods have delayed the arrival in Sudan of a group of foreign relief workers freed by guerrillas of the Tigre People’s Liberation Front in Ethiopia. The group, including four Britons, two Irish, two Italians, one American, and one Indian, were due to arrive at the Sudanese eastern town of Kassala early yesterday. They were seized about a month ago at the Ethiopian town of Korem by Tigrean guerrillas fighting for the independence of their province from Ethiopia. The guerrillas had said that the workers were their guests to inspect the effects of a long drought in the poverty-stricken province. Save the Children Fund officials in Khartoum said that they had received reports the workers were in good shape. They were expected to go to the Sudanese capital from Kassala either by truck or “hopefully by a plane provided by the authorities,” the officials said.
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Press, 7 June 1983, Page 11
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