Efforts continue to secure release of Irish aid worker

A high-level team of diplomats and negotiators will today continue efforts to locate an Irish aid worker and her colleague who have been kidnapped in war-torn Sudan.

Sharon Commins, 32, from Clontarf in north Dublin, and Ugandan Hilda Kuwuki, 42, were captured by a gang of armed men at a compound in the town of Kutum, northern Darfur, on Friday.