Darfur Women Freed
April 5th, 2009
It is refreshing to hear that once in a while women of Africa experience some positive developments, especially those in such dire situations like the women of Darfur.
Earlier this year, a group of Darfuris women was saved from the hands of bandits who were believed to have been on a mission to take them hostages or possible war slaves.
The UN reported said troops from the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, tasked with protecting civilians and suppressing the bloody conflict in the region, foiled an attempted abduction of several women who had strayed outside a makeshift camp in the war-torn western flank of Sudan.
The report said a patrol from the hybrid force, known as UNAMID, was dispatched to the Hassa Hissa camp in West Darfur after being alerted that six women had been snatched while collecting firewood in nearby fields.
The kidnappers are said to have released the women when they saw the UNAMID team, made up of protection force personnel, police and military observers, approaching the scene.
The incident follows a series of violent incidents surrounding the Hassa Hissa camp, with the latest involving unidentified gunmen having shot dead the traditional leader or “sheikh” in the camp.
Let us hope that incidents like these never seize to happen.
