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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>Two Kenyan aid workers are being held in north western South Sudan for engaging in a fistfight aboard a flight last weekend. Police in Aweil, the capital city of Northern Bahr el Ghazal region, some 780 kilometres north of Juba, on Thursday told nation.africa that Mr Nicholas Wamwangi, 30, and Kelvin Kimani, 29, were still being held in remand.<\/p>\n

The two employees of Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) had boarded a Kush Airline plane from Juba International Airport and were arrested upon landing at Aweil airstrip on March 12.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two aid workers, believed to be gynaecologists, were arrested on Saturday last week,\u201d said Captain Guot Guot Akol, the police spokesperson in Northern Bahr El Ghazal.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to information from one of the passengers, they started fighting when the Kush Airlines plane left Juba until it landed in Aweil, and again, fought in front of police at the airstrip.\u201d<\/p>\n

Five days later, police say, it is not yet clear what sparked the exchange of blows that caused panic among passengers on board, with plane crew scrambling to inform police and aviation authorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are yet to hear from the organisation that sent them. But we have processed their documents and presented them to Interpol, which will now investigate the case in collaboration with our Immigration Department,\u201d said Captain Akol<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, on Wednesday, the chairman of Kenya Association came to us and he is following the case amiably,\u201d he added without giving details.<\/p>\n

Police have since established that the two suspects were drunk during the mid-air fistfight, according to the spokesman. Nation.Africa\u2019s efforts to reach the Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) for comment did not bear fruit as calls went unanswered.<\/p>\n

Norwegian Church Aid is a Norway based humanitarian and ecumenical organisation with headquarters in Oslo. It was traditionally affiliated with the state Church of Norway, but is now independent.<\/p>\n

\u201cNorwegian Church Aid works with people and organisations around the world in their struggle to eradicate poverty and injustice,\u201d it says on its website.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe help those whose needs are greatest, regardless of ethnicity, creed, political or religious affiliation\u201d.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About South-Sudan<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Police in Aweil, the capital city of Northern Bahr el Ghazal region, some 780 kilometres north of Juba, on Thursday told nation.africa that Mr Nicholas Wamwangi, 30, and Kelvin Kimani, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[234,265,233],"class_list":["post-12789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"\n2 Kenyan doctors arrested in South Sudan for fighting inside Kush-Air plane - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two Kenyan aid workers are being held in north western South Sudan for engaging in a fistfight aboard a flight last week ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/2-kenyan-doctors-arrested-in-south-sudan-for-fighting-inside-kush-air-plane\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2 Kenyan doctors arrested in South Sudan for fighting inside Kush-Air plane\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two Kenyan aid workers are being held in north western South Sudan for engaging in a fistfight aboard a flight last week ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/2-kenyan-doctors-arrested-in-south-sudan-for-fighting-inside-kush-air-plane\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-17T14:27:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-17T14:39:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2022\/03\/img-6233481119d8d.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"850\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"410\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/2-kenyan-doctors-arrested-in-south-sudan-for-fighting-inside-kush-air-plane#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/2-kenyan-doctors-arrested-in-south-sudan-for-fighting-inside-kush-air-plane\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2 Kenyan doctors arrested in South Sudan for fighting inside Kush-Air plane\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-17T14:27:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-17T14:39:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/2-kenyan-doctors-arrested-in-south-sudan-for-fighting-inside-kush-air-plane\"},\"wordCount\":368,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/2-kenyan-doctors-arrested-in-south-sudan-for-fighting-inside-kush-air-plane#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2022\/03\/img-6233481119d8d.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"South-Sudan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/2-kenyan-doctors-arrested-in-south-sudan-for-fighting-inside-kush-air-plane#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/2-kenyan-doctors-arrested-in-south-sudan-for-fighting-inside-kush-air-plane\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/2-kenyan-doctors-arrested-in-south-sudan-for-fighting-inside-kush-air-plane\",\"name\":\"2 Kenyan doctors arrested in South Sudan for fighting inside Kush-Air plane - 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