[Daily Nation (Kenya)] A British aid worker freed after a kidnap "ordeal" of nearly three months in Sudan's Darfur region has arrived in the capital Khartoum following his release.Patrick Noonan stood silently on the steps of a VIP airport terminal, flanked by officials, after a flight from conflict-plagued Darfur.
"He's been through an ordeal. We were told how strong a man he was and I think that's true," Tony Brennan, charge d'affaires of the British embassy, told news hounds in a brief airport presser.
He added that Noonan had come through with "his head held high." Asked how he had been treated in captivity, Noonan looked at a news hound and said nothing before he was driven away.
He wore a white collarless shirt, and his face was marked with red blotches.
"After 86 days in captivity in the South Darfur region of Sudan, British aid worker Patrick Noonan, who was working for the World Food Programme, has been released," the UN agency said in an earlier statement.
Noonan had been in Sudan for about two years and was working as a logistician in Nyala town when he was kidnapped by "gunnies" on March 6, the statement said.