Gunmen shoot and kill aid worker in Gaza, charity and family say
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Gunmen in the Gaza Strip shot and killed a Palestinian aid worker from a US-based charity, firing on her car in what officials from the Hamas-run government told her family was a case of mistaken identity. The car in which Islam Hejazy, Gaza program manager at HEAL Palestine, was traveling was intercepted […]
Thousands protest in Brussels demanding release of Belgian aid worker in Iran
Brussels, Belgium Reuters Thousands of people took to the streets of Brussels on Sunday to protest against the detention in Iran of Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele, who was sentenced to 40 years in prison on charges including spying. People protest against the detention of Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele in Iran, who was sentenced […]
German aid worker freed after kidnapping four years ago in Niger, says employer
Dakar, SenegalReuters A 63-year-old German aid worker, Joerg Lange, has been freed more than four years after he was kidnapped in western Niger near the Malian border, his employer, humanitarian organisation Help, said in a statement on Saturday. Armed men on motorcycles kidnapped Lange in April, 2018, near the Nigerien town of Inates in borderlands […]
UK aid worker asks why she was left in Iran for six years
London, UK Reuters Aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe accused Britain and Iran on Monday of treating her like a political pawn, saying it should not have taken six years for London to secure her release from detention in Tehran. Appearing at a news conference in parliament in London, the 44-year-old said she would always be haunted […]