Sudan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry announced that a worker at its diplomatic mission in South Sudan is missing since last Friday.
According to a Tuesday press statement in Khartoum, the worker who mysteriously disappeared is of sound mind and does not suffer from any illness or mental disorder.
“The local worker was transferred to work in our embassy in Juba in September 2011. According to regulations that control the transfer of workers, he was scheduled to return back to the ministry’s headquarters in August or September 2015,” reads the statement.
“On Friday morning, 1 May, the worker went out of the office and informed his colleague that he was going to visit a relative in a Juba suburb, but he didn’t come back up till now. His phone is closed completely,” adds the statement.
The ministry further explained that the local worker was working as a guard for the mission’s office and was also helping in the delivery of correspondence between different units at the embassy.
File photo: Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ali Karti