The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has condemned “in the strongest terms” the tragic killing of its abducted colleague Saifura Hussaini Ahmed Khorsa.
The group also appealed to the armed group to immediately release a second ICRC midwife and another health-care worker taken in north-eastern Nigeria in March.
It emerged on Monday that Saifura Husseini Ahmed, one of the three abducted humanitarian workers was shot from behind by a member of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), a faction of Boko Haram, three weeks after the three health workers begged President Muhammadu Buhari to rescue them from captivity, saying Boko Haram had given them the “final warning”.
ICRC mourned Saifura’s killing, wondering what explanations would be made to her two-year-old son and five-year-old daughter.
“We are devastated by the murder of our colleague Saifura,”…
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