**An aid worker with joint UK-French nationality has been freed in Sudan’s Darfur region after five months.**Gauthier Lefevre, 35, who works for the International Committee of the Red Cross, was the last foreign hostage being held in Darfur.
He had spent longer in captivity than any other aid worker in the region but is said to be in good health.
One major Darfur rebel group last month signed a peace deal with the government but the region remains unstable.
Armed robberies and low-level crime are rife.
“We are extremely happy that he has been released,” ICRC spokesman Saleh Dabbakeh told the Reuters news agency.
“This has been the longest kidnapping in the recent history of Darfur.”
He was released near the West Darfur capital, Geneina, the ICRC said.
Two other French hostages were freed in Darfur on Sunday, after being seized in neighbouring Central African Republic last November.