British Tearfund office plundered in Central Darfur

Militiamen robbed the British Tearfund organisation working in the field of nutrition and health care in Nierteti, Central Darfur on Tuesday morning, an eyewitness told Radio Dabanga. The thieves took SDG123 million, two computers, four laptops, three mobile phones, cameras, a television, and other items of value from the Tearfund office. The eyewitness said that the militiamen stormed the office at 2am stormed the office of the organisation, located at about 20m from the Nierteti Unamid compound. They beat the financial officer, Hatim Khatim, and Ali Eisa Abdallah, a logistician, and they ordered Khatim and Abdallah to carry the safe to a place outside the town. There, another group of gunmen was waiting for them with vehicles. Khatim and Abdallah were released, and are currently being treated in the hospital of Nierteti. File photo: The head master of a school in Kass, together with a staff member of Tearfund (Tearfund)

Militiamen robbed the British Tearfund organisation working in the field of nutrition and health care in Nierteti, Central Darfur on Tuesday morning, an eyewitness told Radio Dabanga.

The thieves took SDG123 million, two computers, four laptops, three mobile phones, cameras, a television, and other items of value from the Tearfund office.

The eyewitness said that the militiamen stormed the office at 2am stormed the office of the organisation, located at about 20m from the Nierteti Unamid compound. They beat the financial officer, Hatim Khatim, and Ali Eisa Abdallah, a logistician, and they ordered Khatim and Abdallah to carry the safe to a place outside the town. There, another group of gunmen was waiting for them with vehicles.

Khatim and Abdallah were released, and are currently being treated in the hospital of Nierteti.

File photo: The head master of a school in Kass, together with a staff member of Tearfund (Tearfund)