Aid groups in Chad on Friday began a two-day suspension of all humanitarian operations in the country to protest the slaying of a French aid worker the previous day, a United Nations statement said.
”The humanitarian community decided to recommend a suspension of humanitarian activities, apart from emergency ones,” said a statement from the UN humanitarian coordinator in Chad, Kingsley Amaning.
The move aimed to ”protest the deteriorating security in eastern Chad and to reiterate our solidarity with the families and colleagues of all victims of this insecurity”, the statement said.
A group of armed men shot dead Pascal Marlinge (49), a member of the London-based charity Save the Children, as he was driving in a convoy in Chad’s war-stricken eastern region, his employer said on Thursday. — AFP
