'In deep grief.' Aid workers, U.N. staff, tourists among victims in Ethiopia plane crash.
By Paul Schemm , Paul Schemm Overnight foreign editor based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Email Bio Follow Kareem Fahim and Kareem Fahim Istanbul bureau chief covering the Middle East Email Bio Follow Rick Noack Rick Noack Foreign affairs reporter focusing on Europe and international security Email Bio Follow March 11 at 1:24 PM ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Law students, tourists, writers, academics and a number of aid workers and employees of the United Nations were among those who died in...
There were also 18 Canadians on the flight. Pisu Adesanmi was Nigerian-born scholar and the director of the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. In online tributes and statements, colleagues described him as a leading figure in his field. He was the author of the satirical essay collection, “Naija No Dey Carry Last: Thoughts on a Nation in Progress.”
Another Canadian victim, Danielle Moore, 24, posted on Facebook on Saturday that she was “so excited and “beyond privileged” to announce she was attending to United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi. The Rome-based World Food Program, which provides food assistance to millions of people across the world and in the Horn of Africa, lost seven employees.
— Leo Varadkar March 10, 2019 Two Italians working with WFP, Virginia Chimenti and Maria Pilar Buzzetti, were also killed. Three Italians working with humanitarian agency Africa Tremila — treasurer Matteo Ravasio, Carlo Spini and his wife Gabriella Viggiani — were also killed. So profoundly sad and lost for words at the loss of our wonderful @FAOfish officer @JoannaToole, who was on her way to represent @faofish at the #UNEA meeting in Nairobi on #ET302. A wonderful human being, who loved her work with a passion. Our love to her family and loved ones pic.twitter.com/6fjE3cNEhI
The International Organization for Migration said its staffer Anne-Katin Feigl, a young German working on a Sudan mission, died on the flight.
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