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GENEVA (AP) - Two aid workers kidnapped nine days ago while traveling to a refugee camp in Congo were released Saturday, according to the humanitarian aid group Medecins San Frontieres.
The two workers, abducted while traveling to the Jina camp in Congo's violent Ituri province, were released without conditions and are in good health, said the agency, which is known in English as Doctors Without Borders. The workers were identified only as a French aid worker and a Congolese driver.
The Geneva-based branch of the organization has been working in Ituri since 2003, when the province was being torn apart by violent clashes between ethnic Lendu and Hema militia. The fighting has killed over 60,000 people in the province since 1999.
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