British aid group says workers beaten in South Sudan
A British aid group accused South Sudanese soldiers of arresting and beating four of their members in a politically-sensitive area of the oil-producing region, but the army denied any use of violence. South Sudan's army (SPLA) said the one Kenyan and three Sudanese workers for aid group Tearfund were arrested on suspicion of helping anti-government militias.
Soldiers stopped the four men on Sunday at a roadblock near Kodok in the south's Upper Nile state, aid officials said, an area the southern army says is occupied by supporters of southern opposition leader Lam Akol. The southern army has accused Akol, Sudan's former foreign minister, of leading a band of militia fighters in the region, an accusation he denies. (Reuters)
