French aid organization Action Contre La Faim (ACF) says the two French aid workers kidnapped in Afghanistan last month have been released.

The Paris-based organization said in a brief statement that the two are said to be apparently in good health and that arrangements were being made to bring them home.

However, the statement didn't give any details about the conditions of the release or who had been behind the kidnapping, AP reported.

The two aid workers were taken at gunpoint from the house where they were sleeping in the Afghan province of Day Kundi during the night on July 18.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy expressed his relief at the release. His office release a statement on Saturday, in which he thanked his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai, for his "personal investment thanks to which this hostage situation was rapidly and happily resolved."

Elsewhere, the French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner hailed the announcement and gave credit to "close liaisons" between French and Afghan authorities for managing to win the release.

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