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Children's Agency, were in good health, Sonya Laurence Green, said from Nairobi in neighboring Kenya.She did not give further details, but did say the plane was expected in Nairobi at 6.30 p.m. (15:30 GMT).The Britons had been held since March 27 in north Mogadishu by gunmen loyal to faction leader Musa Sude Yalahow. Today they were transported to the faction leader's headquarters in southern part of the capital. They then then boarded a United Nations aircraft at one of the city's small, private airports for the flight to Nairobi.Yalahow's gunmen – who control the Jasire airport – provided an armed escort to the vehicle carrying Condie and Carter to the airport, 5 kilometres (3 miles) southeast of the capital.Somalia has been chaotic, violent and without a central government since faction leaders joined forces to oust dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. The factions then fought with each other, splintering the Horn of Africa nation into battling fiefdoms.In August, a peace conference in neighboring Djibouti elected President Abdiqassim Salad Hassan and 245–legislators last August.

But many powerful faction leaders, including Yalahow, boycotted the process and oppose his three–year interim government.On March 27, the Britons were with seven other international aid workers when their convoy was attacked outside the compound of the humanitarian agency, Medecins sans Frontieres.Two other U.N. workers were also briefly held by the gunmen loyal to Yalahow. They were released last week.When the aid convoy was attacked, government militia were sent to intervene. That sparked a daylong battle with Yalahow's gunmen that left 14 Somalis dead and more than 40 wounded.Five aid workers, three from the relief agency known in English as Doctors without Borders and two from the U.N. Children's Fund, managed to fly out of Somalia March 28 after being sheltered by a sympathetic businessman Four U.N aid workers were held by Yalahow's militia. Two were freed March 30.In Britain, Condie's brother–in–law, Frank Ross, said he was "pleased to hear reports of the pairs' release."We have been very stressed by all this and worried about what's going to happen," Ross said.

"We just want a quick release and to hear that he's back safe and well with his family.". Sudan's deputy defence minister and 13 other high–ranking military officers were killed as their plane crashed on takeoff in southern Sudan today, state television reported. Sudan's deputy defence minister and 13 other high–ranking military officers were killed as their plane crashed on takeoff in southern Sudan today, state television reported.The television said the deputy minister, Col. Ibrahim Shamsul–Din, and the others had been touring a southern military area and were headed back to Khartoum at the time of the crash.Shamsul–Din had backed the coup in which Sudanese President Omar el–Bashir's took power in 1989. The military remains the main power broker in Sudan, not least because the country has been embroiled in civil war for 18 years.The dead included another colonel, a general, seven lieutenant generals, three brigadiers and a lieutenant colonel. Also killed was a corporal.The accident took place in Adaril, in an oil–rich area near the main regional city of Malakal some 750 kilometres (468 miles) south of Khartoum, the television said. The television said the plane skidded off the runway before crashing.

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