KENYA: Aid workers under siege

NAIROBI Wednesday, October 29, 2008 (IRIN) - The Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) has appealed for respect for aid workers providing assistance to thousands after its staff were attacked by bandits and accosted by security personnel in Mandera, in the northeast. "Bandits attacked the Kenya Red Cross personnel who were returning from their work in Garissa [a neighbouring town], robbing them of their personal effects such as money and mobile phones," the agency said in a statement. In a separate...