By Prudence Arobani
UN has renewed its call for civilians and aid workers everywhere to be better protected following the killing of 139 of them and 72 kidnapped in 2017.
It said 102 of those aid workers have been wounded also in the line of duty.
Mr Mark Lowcock, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator and Humanitarian Affairs chief, stated this while remembering all the humanitarians killed in the line of duty, just ahead of World Humanitarian Day.
In 2008, the General Assembly designated Aug. 19 as World Humanitarian Day to raise awareness of humanitarian assistance and pay tribute to the people who risk their lives to provide it.
Marking the fifth consecutive year in which more than 100 aid workers lost their lives on the job, the UN said 2017 was the highest recorded annual death toll since 2013, when 156 humanitarians were killed.
In March, three aid workers were killed in Rann town in Borno, following an attack by suspected Boko…
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