The staff members killed had worked in several UN affiliated agencies and programmes including at UN offices in Kenya and Somalia.passenger jet crash. The UN says its World Food Programme lost 7 staffers, while six were lost from the UN Regional Headquarters in Nairobi.
Memorials were held today in Ethiopia for some of the victims of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed on Sunday. Moments of silence were held inside the United Nations headquarters in New York. The dead include 32 Kenyans, 18 Canadians, nine each from Ethiopia and France, eight from the United States, China and Italy and seven from Britain, the identities of all the victims not yet released by the airline.