Afghanistan still most perilous country for aid workers: consultancy

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Afghanistan, torn by conflict for more than three decades, kept its place as the most dangerous country for aid workers in 2014, when more than a quarter of all attacks on aid staff took place there, the consulting group Humanitarian Outcomes said.

Worldwide, there were 190 attacks on humanitarian operations in 2014, a fall of about 30 percent from the all-time high the year before, the group said in the preview of a report.

In all, 329 aid workers were attacked in 27 countries, of whom 120 were killed, 88 wounded and 121 kidnapped, according to the forthcoming Aid Worker Security Report 2015.

"The number of casualties being lower in 2014 than a year before says more about the spike in 2013 than about the conditions for aid workers getting any safer," Abby Stoddard, one of the report's authors, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

"The number of attacks in 2014 is still higher than in any previous year. Aid agencies have not become more risk averse but are changing their mode of operating.". - Read More

Afghanistan still most perilous country for aid workers: consultancy

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