Darfur: ransom demand for 3 Medecins Sans Frontieres workers
GenevaLunch News THe BBC reports that kidnappers are demanding a ransom for the three Belgian aid workers from Médecins Sans Frontières who were taken Wednesday. Two local workers kidnapped at the same...
View ArticleAid workers released in Somalia
GenevaLunch News Armed Somalian men released two aid workers, from Doctors without Borders, Tuesday 5 May. The pair had been kidnapped and held for a ransom, but according to local sources a ransom...
View ArticleAid workers head for Southern India as floods leave 2.5 million homeless
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The worst floods in decades in southern India have killed at least 250 people and left some 2.5 million people homeless. Aid workers from around the...
View ArticleBomb in NW Pakistan hits convey headed to girls school
GenevaLunch News Four foreigners are reportedly among seven people killed when a bomb exploded near a school in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province, but initial reports are contradictory. The bomb...
View ArticleUN polio vaccination workers attacked in Afghanistan
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – One aid worker was reported by local media to have been hospitalized with injuries in northern Afghanistan after a car in which a group of workers was traveling...
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