Gunmen shot and killed two United Nations aid workers in Somalia last week, and Islamist rebels are blamed for the killings. In Afghanistan, the Taliban killed an aid worker as she walked to work in Kabul.
Twenty-nine aid workers have been killed this year in Afghanistan alone. The risk only increases as the Taliban continues to gain strength.
One of our correspondents, Will Everett, recently went on a reporting trip to Afghanistan. He had intended to interview an American aid worker who lived there with his wife and two children. But as you’ll hear in this Reporter’s Notebook, Will never got the story. |