The church has called for release of three humanitarian workers who were abducted in Upper Nile State early this month.

The unnamed men were working for the World Food Program. The WFP says the drivers were caught up in a fighting over land between communities in Akoka and those of Fashoda counties.

“To us as a church, we are concerned about the safety of these people because our role is with people. I don’t know whether they are still alive or not,” Reverend Alex Gabriel Lado, Moderator of Equatoria Presbyterian Church of South Sudan and Sudan.

Reverend Alex fears that the continued disappearance of relief workers could force humanitarian agencies to withdraw from the areas affected by the conflict.

He says this could increase the suffering of the displaced people. The whereabouts of the aid workers remain unknown.