Around the World: Sudan

Elders' help sought

Sudan said yesterday it had asked tribal elders to help free a Red Cross aid worker kidnapped in Darfur. Armed men snatched Gauthier Lefevre last week in West Darfur, the fifth abduction of foreign workers since March. Reports about ransom demands the abductors had made for Lefevre, a dual French-British national working in Sudan on his French passport, varied from $1 million to more than $4 million.