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    Aid Worker Sues NGO Over Darfur Kidnapping

    By Ivy Mungcal // 24 May 2011
    Pallets of humanitarian aid by U.S.-based nonprofit, Samaritan's Purse. Photo by: Samaritan's Purse

    An aid worker abducted in Sudan last year is suing the U.S.-based nonprofit that deployed her there, accusing the group of willfully ignoring threats to foreigners in Darfur and of failing to adequately train its security officers.

    Flavia Wagner spent more than three months in captivity in Darfur before she was freed by local police forces.

    >> US Aid Worker Freed in Darfur

    In the lawsuit she filed in a New York federal court last week, she alleged that Samaritan’s Purse sent her to the Abu Ajura area in Darfur despite threats of kidnapping and warnings by other non-governmental organizations against traveling in the area, Reuters reports.

    The suit also named Clayton Consultants, the crisis management firm that Samaritan’s Purse hired to handle negotiations with the kidnappers. Both Samaritan’s Purse and the firm have yet to comment on the lawsuit, according to Reuters.

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      As former senior staff writer, Ivy Mungcal contributed to several Devex publications. Her focus is on breaking news, and in particular on global aid reform and trends in the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas. Before joining Devex in 2009, Ivy produced specialized content for U.S. and U.K.-based business websites.

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