The body of a British Red Cross worker held captive in Pakistan since January was found in an orchard Sunday, his throat slit and a note attached to his body saying he was killed because no ransom was paid, police said. Khalil Rasjed Dale, 60, was managing a health program i …
The release of six kidnapped U.N.
Thirty-five United Nations personnel — 25 civilians, nine peacekeepers and a military adviser — were killed in 2011, according to the Staff Union Committee for the Security and Independence of the International Civil Service.
Khalil Rasjed Dale, a British doctor with International Committee of the Red Cross, kidnapped by unknown armed gang in Quetta
It is with great sadness that Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) confirms that two staff members were killed this morning as a result of a shooting in the organisation's compound in Mogadishu. While one of the aid workers died during the shooting, the other was tran …
Another United Nations staff member has died as a result of the suicide bombing that struck the world body's offices in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, four months ago. Fred Simiyu Willis, an employee of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), died on 23 December in South Africa, where …
A gunman killed three Somali aid workers, including two with the U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP), in Somalia on Friday, development officials said. The attack took place in the central Somali town of Matabaan, in a region under the control of the Ahlu Sunna gro …
An Italian aid worker named Fransesco Azzara, working for the italian NGO named EMERGENCY was kidnapped yesterday in Nyala, South Darfur.
Ahmaday Mohammad Omar, an employee of the World Food Program, was killed by an armed group in West Darfur on Tuesday. His wife and child were also killed in the incident.
Idris Yousef Abdelrahman, a civil affairs officer for the joint United Nations African Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), is being detained and is at risk of torture or other illtreatment. On 12 July he was charged with offences that are punishable by death under Sudanese law.
Police in Pakistan say gunmen have kidnapped eight Pakistani aid workers after stopping their vehicles in the southwest of the country. Authorities say the aid workers were distributing food to Afghan refugees when they were seized in the Surkhab area of Balochistan Province.
Militant Islamist group al-Shabaab is holding a World Health Organization employee in the central town of Baidoa, although the reasons behind the arrest are unclear.According to local staff, Farah Abdi Nur, a polio specialist, was taken from his home in late June.
Three French aid workers kidnapped in southeastern Yemen a month ago have been "located" and are "alive," the deputy information minister told reporters on Tuesday. "Security services have managed to locate the French.
A Sudanese UN worker arrested in Darfur in May is being denied contact with lawyer and family and there is concern for her safety, rights activists say. According to Amnesty International, Hawa Abdullah Mohammed was detained at the Abu Shouk camp for displaced people in Fasher …
An employee of the international medical organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been detained for weeks in Bahrain after being severely beaten upon arrest by authorities, with no information provided about his condition and whereabouts, including to his …
Three French aid workers disappeared in Yemen's southern province of Hadramout on Saturday and a local security official said they were believed to have been kidnapped. The French Foreign Ministry said the three were missing in the Arabian Peninsula country, in the grip of ci …
An American aid worker who was kidnapped last year in Sudan's ravaged Darfur region has sued the charity that sent her there.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has confirmed that one if its staff members was killed and two others remain missing after an ambush in Ethiopia’s remote Somali region.
WFP Senior Programme Assistant, Santino Pigga Alex Wani, was killed in an ambush on 22 April by unknown assailants near Duk Payuel, Duk County in Jonglei State.
At least seven foreign UN workers have been killed after protesters stormed a UN compound in the Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif, officials say.
Papua New Guinea police are investigating allegations a brutal attack on an Australian aid worker is linked to his work exposing corruption.
Viewers responded to ABC News' "20/20" investigation of the murder and rape of female volunteers in the Peace Corps with an outpouring of grief and anger – but also with heartfelt defenses of the Peace Corps – on Facebook and Twitter.
News reports confirmed by the United Nations are that three Bulgarians working for the U.N. World Food Program have been abducted in West Darfur province, Sudan. The men were seized after they landed their helicopter at an airstrip in the town of Um Shalaya.
Two young Frenchmen who died less than 24 hours after being kidnapped in Niger were probably killed by their captors, French military officials said today.
A German consultant has died after the vehicle he was travelling in was attacked in northern Afghanistan, the German government said.
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