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Three Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) aid workers taken hostage in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region have been released, the organization has said.
The three hostages, a Canadian nurse, an Italian doctor and a French coordinator, were kidnapped at gunpoint on Wednesday.
An MSF official said on Friday he had been told the three workers were on their way to the northern Darfur town of el-Fasher.
"The kidnappers called us ... [the hostages] were released an hour ago," Kostas Moschochoritis, head of MSF Italy, told Reuters news agency, adding that no ransom had been paid.
Two Sudanese employees of MSF were also freed earlier, he added.
The five were working for Belgian MSF when they were seized by men in Serif Umra.
Earlier on Friday, Koen Baetens, a spokesman for MSF, said the trio were in good health.
MSF pulled nearly all of its personnel out of Darfur and into the capital, Khartoum, following the abductions. Only staff working on securing the release of their colleagues have remained behind.
The attack on the Belgian MSF branch came days after the French and Dutch contingents of the aid organization were told to leave Darfur.
The Belgian foreign ministry said that none of its nationals was involved.
Khartoum accusation
MSF branches are among 13 aid groups ordered to leave Sudan after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, for alleged war crimes in Darfur.
Khartoum accuses the aid groups of cooperating with the ICC, which says that al-Bashir led a violent campaign in Darfur over the past six years.
The United Nations says that more than 180 foreign aid workers have left Sudan since the order by Khartoum to expel the aid groups.
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Christopher Stokes -- the chief of Medecins Sans Frontieres' (MSF) Belgian branch -- and MSF director of operations Stephan Goetghebuer (L) hold a press conference in Brussels.
Al-Jazeera
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