Abducted aid workers are alive and well-treated

Two female aid workers - both working in on the Chad border for a French charity - told AFP over the phone that they were being treated well. Their abducters claim to have targeted France in retaliation for the 2007 Zoe's Ark fiasco. Two female foreign aid workers, a Canadian and a French national, kidnapped in Darfur last week are alive and are being treated well, the Canadian hostage told AFP in a phone call on Sunday."We are being treated well. We do not know where we are," said the Canadian hostage, who identified herself as Stephanie Joidon, over a satellite phone.Armed men had kidnapped the pair, who work for French aid group Aide Medicale Internationale, from their office in South Darfur's capital Nyala, about 100 kilometres (65 miles) from the border with Chad, on April 4.The Canadian hostage, who did not sound under duress during the phone call, id entified her French colleague as Claire Dubois.Their names, which have been published in the Sudanese media, have been confirmed by a Western source."We wish (our families) much courage. We hope that all ends well," Joidon said.One of the kidnappers, who refused to give his name, named his group as the "Falcons for the Liberation of Africa", saying it was composed of former rebels and members of Arab tribes in Darfur.