Aid worker News

She was a British aid worker who had been swept up by the Taliban last month in Afghanistan after the militants forced her car off the road on September 26.

It is reported that a British woman has been kidnapped in Afghanistan. Insurgents are said to have ambushed the vehicle that she was in.

The three aid workers employed by the French organization Action Against Hunger that were captured by Somali gunmen in July, have been released.

The Fellowship for African Relief says a Sudanese relief worker has been shot and killed in in the western Darfur town of Kongo Haraza.

A female U.S. aid worker and her driver were kidnapped in Kandahar early this morning. Unknown gunmen stopped the 49-year-old U.S. citizen, who was wearing a burqa, outside the city. She worked for the Asian Rural Life Development Foundation.