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As Risks Rise, Aid Agencies Adapt
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 6 days ago
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Ed Futa, general secretary for Rotary International, which had its first serious security incident earlier this year in Nigeria. "Some of these organizations have made explicit statements legitimizing the targeting of aid workers," says Michael O'Neill,...
Tags: aid worker, OSAC, Immune Rotary International, aid group, U.S, Nigerian, Afghanistan, Michael O'Neill, Pakistani, John Schafer, Kabul, Attacks on humanitarian workers, Humanitarian aid, Humanitarians, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, Blackwater Worldwide, Politics, Aid, Development, International relations
US aid worker held over Afghan boy's shooting
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 13 days ago
Credibility US aid worker held over Afghan boy's shooting An American aid worker in northern Afghanistan is being held by Afghan authorities over the fatal shooting of an Afghan teenager at his home, a provincial police chief said on Wednesday. Mohammad Bilal...
Tags: aid worker, Afghanistan, worker held
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Khartoum :: Sudan | about 1 month ago
Credibility The African Union (AU) panel that was tasked with balancing peace and accountability in Darfur has made an implicit endorsement of the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutions despite unfavorable disposition to the issue by African leaders and...
Tags: aid worker, West Darfur, Southern Sudan, darfur region, Omar al-Bashir, Ugandan, Irishwoman Sharon Commins
Kidnapped aid worker tells of mock executions
Khartoum :: Sudan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Aid worker tells of mock executions staged by her kidnappers in Dafur • Former captive talks of captors' anger • Friendship 'kept abducted women strong' Sharon Commins, the Irish aid worker who was kidnapped in Darfur, arrives at Khartoum airport in...
Tags: Irishwoman Sharon Commins, aid worker, Ugandan Hilda Kawuki, mock executions, North Darfur, worker sharon, colleague hilda, Ms Commins, aid agency, agency goal
Kidnapped Irish aid worker makes contact
Khartoum :: Sudan | 2 months ago
Credibility A kidnapped Irish aid worker held in Sudan has made contact with her family in Ireland , relatives confirmed today. Sharon Commins was abducted in Sudan 10 weeks ago along with her Ugandan colleague Hilda Kawuki while working for the Irish aid agency...
Tags: aid worker, Sudan
Irish FM visits Sudan for talks over kidnapped aid worker
Khartoum :: Sudan | 2 months ago
Credibility Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin is travelling to Sudan for talks over the kidnapping of aid worker Sharon Commins which abducted since two months in the troubled region of Darfur. Ms Commins, 32, and her colleague Ugandan Hilda Kawuki were taken...
Tags: aid worker, North Darfur, Sudan
Aid worker free after Chad kidnap
N'Djaména :: Chad | 2 months ago
Credibility UN officials said the man, who works for medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, had been returned to the eastern town of Ade. The man, reportedly from Greece, was seized with a Chadian colleague on 4 August...UN officials and the Chadian military confirmed...
Tags: aid worker, Chadian
Somali kidnappers free aid workers
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 3 months ago
Credibility Four aid workers and two pilots held captive in Somalia for nine months were released Tuesday. The workers from French aid group Action Against Hunger were in good health, the organization said. "ACF wishes to thank the Somali communities and the authorities...
Tags: Somalia, aid worker, kenyans pilots, French, Action Contre La Faim, Nicolas Sarkozy, group action, aid group, presidency nicolas, Mogadishu
Activist, husband found dead in Chechnya
Moscow :: Russia | 3 months ago
Credibility Unidentified armed men abducted the head of Let's Save the Generation, Zarema Sadulayeva, and her husband from the offices of the young people's NGO on Monday afternoon (local time), Mr Cherkasov said. The Interfax news agency quoted interior ministry...
Tags: Chechnya, Zarema Sadulayeva, Alik Dzhabrailov, Russian, Grozny, human rights, shot dead, rights activists, aid worker, capital grozny
Peacekeeping Mission In Darfur Extended
Khartoum :: Sudan | 3 months ago
Credibility Today’s extension follows a request earlier this month from Mr. Ban, who warned in his latest report on the work of the mission that numerous challenges remain in Darfur, despite the decrease in large-scale conflict. He voiced particular concern about...
Tags: aid worker, Darfur, Sudan Liberation Movement, darfur region, Howard L. Berman, rebel groups
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