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Crime scenes: These artist illustrations portray a man sitting at a hotel, a hospital and a maternity ward in Butembo, a DRC aid hub in the Ebola outbreak of 2018- 2020 where local women were allegedly abused. Illustrations: Robert Flummerfelt/The New Humanitarian
AID WORKERS

New sex abuse claims against aid workers exposed in DRC

Investigation finds extensive abuse of power by men allegedly working at organisations such as the World Health Organisation

  • Robert Flummerfelt
  • Ange Kasongo
7 min read
AID WORKERS

SA in talks with Egypt to secure release of doctor

The Foreign Affairs Department was in talks with Egyptian authorities on Monday regarding the release of an SA charity worker detained there.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
AID WORKERS

Where hunger lurks

A single mother — desperate to get her only child some more food –offers to give him away to an aid worker. That is how bad the situation is.

  • Coco McCabe
6 min read
AID WORKERS

Aid worker sprayed with bullets in Somali capital

Gunmen killed an aid worker in the Somali capital on Friday, the latest such attack against humanitarian staff in the conflict-torn African nation.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read