Saturday, November 21, 2009 Previous editions
An intensive effort is underway this afternoon to secure the release of a kidnapped Irish aid worker in Sudan.
A team of senior Irish officials have arrived in the capital Khartoum for a series of meetings.
The high-level team dispatched to the region by the Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin is now getting to work on the ground in Sudan.
Irish officials are holding talks in the capital Khartoum with representatives of the Sudanese government.
Others have now travelled on to Darfur where 32-year-old Sharon Commins from Clontarf in Dublin and her Ugandan colleague were abducted by an armed gang.
They were taken at night from a GOAL compound.
The Irish Ambassador in Uganda has also held talks today with officials in Kampala.
Meanwhile discussions will take place later with embassy officials of countries that have offered their assistance to the Irish Government.
Those countries have also had citizens kidnapped in the region and subsequently released unharmed.
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