Afghanistan: kidnapped Finnish woman freed after four months
World Watch Monitor A Finnish aid worker held hostage for nearly four months in Afghanistan was freed on Thursday. The aid worker had been kidnapped from an international guesthouse in Kabul, run by her employer, Operation Mercy, when it was attacked in May; her German female colleague and Afghan guard were killed. The unnamed woman was studying Dari, preparing […]
German aid worker killed, Finnish woman ‘kidnapped’ in Kabul
World Watch Monitor A German woman and her Afghan guard were killed, and a Finnish woman apparently kidnapped, at an international guesthouse run by a Swedish-based charity in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul late on Saturday evening. The two women were aid workers employed by Operation Mercy, a relief and development NGO which has more than 300 […]