Sudan 'drops aid worker charges'

Charges are to be dropped against two aid workers in Sudan's Darfur region accused of falsifying a report on rape, diplomats say. The arrests led to an international outcry, which the BBC's Jonah Fisher in Khartoum says seems to have forced the Sudanese government into a u-turn.

Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said he agreed that the pair should not have been arrested. In the Netherlands, Sudan's ambassador was summoned to explain why his country were pressing charges against the heads of one of the aid agencies most prominent in helping the victims of two years of violence in Darfur.

In Khartoum, United Nations special envoy Jan Pronk met both the president and foreign minister. He is said to have received assurances that all charges would be dropped.

Story from BBC News

MathewK -

Good that they dropped the charges, just wonder if the international outcry could help the refugees in Darfur as well.

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