GOAL intensifies efforts to free aid worker Commins

Aid agency GOAL has said efforts to secure the release of Sharon Commins are intensifying.

The Irish aid worker and her Ugandan colleague Hilda Kawuki are spending their 13th day in captivity.

They were seized by armed men earlier this month in the north Darfur town of Kutum.

GOAL says an Irish delegation, which includes one of their representatives, are in regular contact with the women's kidnappers.