Tag: workers
Kidnapped Tunisian workers released
Fourteen Tunisian workers kidnapped by armed men in western Libya three days ago were released on Sunday, the Tunisian foreign ministry said in a...
Ebola inoculations for South Sudanese healthcare workers
Some 2,000 healthcare and frontline workers in South Sudan are to be offered Ebola vaccines to stop importation of the viral disease from DR...
Islamic State Nigeria possibly targeting health workers
Islamic State in Nigeria might kill healthcare workers it has held hostage since March within 24 hours, the International Committee of the...
No plans for lay-offs in South African government service
South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa said there would be no mass lay-offs of public sector workers as government considers ways to pull...
CAR aid worker attacks on the rise
Armed groups are increasingly attacking aid workers in Central African Republic, obstructing delivery of life-saving supplies to people caught in conflict, the...
Oil workers abducted in Libya
Two workers, one a foreigner, were abducted during an attack by an unknown group at a facility at Libya's giant Sharara oil...
Water plant workers killed, kidnapped in Libya
Suspected Islamist militants killed two workers and kidnapped two others at a water plant in south-eastern Libya early, the second attack targeting...
Mali election organisers strike
Election workers in Mali extended a strike, a union representative said, casting further doubt on an election meant to chart a way...
South Sudan aid workers released
Ten aid workers who went missing in South Sudan last week have been freed from an armed group that detained them in...
Aid workers released in South Sudan
South Sudan's rebels released seven aid workers detained for nearly three weeks in the Central Equatoria region on accusations of spying for...
Aid workers killed in Nigeria
Three aid workers were killed in the north-eastern Nigerian town Rann during an attack by militants on a military facility, a United...
South Sudan says aid workers cannot go to “insecure” rebel-held areas
South Sudan's government says it may withhold permission for aid workers to go to some rebel-held areas on security grounds, the president's...
Eighty-two aid workers killed in South Sudan’s three year war
A United Nations official said on Wednesday 82 aid workers have been killed in South Sudan's civil war and the number of...
Four of six aid workers killed in South Sudan were Kenyan
Four of the six aid workers killed in an ambush in South Sudan over the weekend were Kenyans working for a local...
South Sudan rebels blame government for aid worker killings
Rebels said the South Sudan government should be held responsible for killing six aid workers, the deadliest single assault on humanitarian staff...
South Sudan aid group says detained workers released
Eight local staff with a US aid group in South Sudan were released safely on Tuesday after being detained by armed men,...
South Sudan rebels kidnap local aid workers
South Sudanese rebels kidnapped eight locals working for a US charity and are demanding aid deliveries as ransom, a military spokesman said,...
