South Sudan: WFP Calls for Release of Abducted Staff Member

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) called Friday for the safe release of a South Sudanese staff member who it says was "taken at gunpoint" from Malakal airport by a group of eight men. “We have not heard from our colleague for almost 24 hours, and we are extremely concerned about his well-being. WFP demands that his captors release our staff member unharmed,” Eddie Rowe, WFP’s Acting Country Director in South Sudan, said in a statement. Bennett Kenyi, president of...

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