Lawyers for a former Australian aid worker who survived a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan are taking legal action against Comcare....
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LAGOS (Reuters) - International aid agency Action Against Hunger said on Thursday that a staff member and five others kidnapped in Nigeria last week had appeare...
Six humanitarian aid workers are missing after their convoy was ambushed in the state of Borno in northeastern Nigeria. The driver of the vehicle was killed, a statement issued by the Action Against Hunger (AAH), an international humanitarian organis...
KABUL A Swedish non-profit resumed on Friday dozens of its health centers in a central Afghanistan province that were forced to shut down by Taliban militants...
The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) said on Wednesday that 42 out of its 77 health facilities in Maidan Wardak province were closed after the Taliban th...
The theme of the 2019 Aid Worker Security Report is sexual violence. As we reviewed the data on sexual assault, I started relating the figures to my experience managing an NGO country office in Sierra Leone. We had about 120 staff, roughly half of wh...
The Taliban said they would hold talks Thursday with representatives of a Swedish non-profit group after threats by the insurgents forced the organization to cl...
In addition to the prison term, the court ordered Peter Dalglish to pay his victims the equivalent of US$5,000 each, Nader Hasan said. Dalglish, an Order of Can...
Her family and the Canadian embassy in Kabul have been informed. Miriam Lindsay, 41, from Maple Grove, Que., was on her way home around midnight local time when her car was hit by another vehicle in West Kabul....
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Meghalaya Police arrested an American aid worker in Shillong after he allegedly molested a judicial magistrate during a scuffle that broke out over supply of wa...
Two Canadian women have been rescued after they were kidnapped last week by gunmen in Ghana's second city, Kumasi, a government minister has said. The two unnam...
On Monday evening, two Canadian women aged 19 and 20 were abducted as they arrived at the Kumasi Royal Golf Club in Kumasi. The BBC reports that they were arriving home at their apartment in the Ahodwo district.
Some news coverage suggests the two...
Doctors working in rebel-held northern Syria will no longer share the locations of medical facilities with the United Nations, after doing so failed to stop the...
The UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office has updated the travel advice for Kenya, warning aid workers in the country that they should 'satisfy themselves that t...
KUMARAKAPAY, Venezuela (Reuters) - At dawn on February 22, as Venezuela’s opposition was preparing to bring humanitarian aid into the country, a convoy of military vehicles drove into the indigenous village of Kumarakapay on its way to the Brazilian ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somali security forces are searching for two local aid workers who were kidnapped by gunmen believed to be Al-Shabab members in the south-w...
KABUL, Afghanistan — A Taliban attack on two aid organizations last week, the deadliest episode in a recent surge of violence against humanitarian workers in Af...
A man carries sacks of food aid for distribution to internally displaced people in the protection of civilians camp run by the U.N. Mission in South Sudan near the town of Malakal in the Upper Nile state of South Sudan....
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(UPDATED) KABUL -- The death toll from a Taliban attack on the offices of an international aid group in Kabul has been raised to at least nine people, Afghan of...
KABUL -- Afghan police report a large explosion in the center of the capital, Kabul, near the offices of the attorney general and several international aid grou...
Making a difference in the lives of their patients is the definition of a nurse’s job description, but author and humanitarian aid worker Roberta Gately RN, BA, from Boston, MA, decided to take the definition of “making a difference” just a few steps...
PEMBA, Mozambique (Reuters) - Rains grounded aid flights in northern Mozambique for a second day on Monday, hampering efforts to reach survivors of Cyclone Kenn...
