Save the Children ‘shocked’ by killing of aid workers

Joakino Francis | March 27, 2017 | 4:35 pm

Save the Children has strongly condemned the killing of six aid workers
over the weekend, one of whom worked for a Save the Children partner
organization, which provides critical child protection to vulnerable
children.

Joseph Akech, the Director for Quality and Advocacy with UNICEF told Eye
Radio that aid workers in South Sudan work in some of the most difficult
and challenging conditions on the planet.

He says Save the Children is deeply saddened and shocked by this tragedy.

At least 79 aid workers have been killed in South Sudan since the beginning
of the December 2013 crisis – 12 of them in 2017 – and at least eight
humanitarian convoys have been attacked this year.

Under International Humanitarian Law, intentional attacks against
humanitarian relief personnel may constitute war crime.

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