World in Progress - the dangers of humanitarian aid work
Education
August 19, 2015
Germany's overseas development agency, GIZ, has suspended operations in Afghanistan's capital after a German aid worker was abducted there on Tuesday. Sitting in a car outside her office building in Kabul in broad daylight, the woman was reportedly taken away by armed gunmen. DW's Florian Weigand has firsthand experience of aid work in Afghanistan and tells us about the dangers.