45 aid workers rescued from Darfur
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An African Union helicopter rescued 45 aid workers, 30 from the Save the Children organization, amid renewed fighting in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region Monday.
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Around 400 UK military personnel are involved in an operation to rescue hundreds of Britons from violence in the Ivory Coast. An MoD spokesman said two RAF Hercules aeroplanes had landed in nearby Ghana carrying around two hundred people to safety.
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Five aid workers have been arrested by Sudanese authorities in the troubled Darfur region but two of them have since been released, the Kirkens Noedhjelp (Norwegian Church Aid) humanitarian organization said.
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Sudan said it had lifted all restrictions on aid workers and revoked a state of emergency in the troubled North Darfur state on Saturday, after rebels pulled out from a town they occupied last week.
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NAIROBI : Rebels in Darfur released six aid workers taken hostage over the weekend, aid agencies said, but there was still no word on the fate of 22 other health workers missing in the war-ravaged western Sudanese region.
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The United Nations evacuated 71 aid workers from the largest refugee camp in Darfur Tuesday after gunmen looted their compounds, leaving some 130,000 refugees virtually without humanitarian help.
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Sudanese soldiers surrounded three refugee camps in Darfur yesterday, forcing out aid workers in a development that could worsen the plight of thousands of African tribesmen who have fled the region&#39;s smouldering civil war.
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Sudan has eased access to its troubled Darfur region for relief workers and supplies but hasn&#39;t disbanded the marauding militia that caused 1.5 million people to flee their homes
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About 70,000 displaced people are thought to have died in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region since March, mainly from disease and malnutrition, a UN official says.
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Rising violence in Darfur has led to almost 500,00 people being denied access to aid, agencies say.
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More than 30 aid workers have been airlifted to safety from a town in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region after fighting broke out and their base was bombed, a British charity says.
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The governor of Sudan&#39;s North Darfur province has lifted a state of emergency in the region and called on aid workers to resume their operations.
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War, disease and malnutrition are killing 45,000 Congolese every month in a conflict-driven humanitarian crisis that has claimed 5.4 million victims in nearly a decade, a survey released on Tuesday said.
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The Mauritanian Red Crescent delivered a ton of emergency humanitarian aid Tuesday to hundreds of illegal immigrants stranded on a ship off the West African coast.
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The Sudanese Red Crescent confirmed on Wednesday the release of a group of Sudanese aid workers kidnapped by rebels in Darfur since weekend.
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Sudan said Monday that rebels  kidnapped eight U.N. and Red Crescent workers in the country's  western Darfur area, where aid agencies are struggling to feed  and house one million villagers displaced by fighting.
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Two aid workers are shot dead in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, an aid agency says.