The Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed on Sunday was packed with humanitarian workers and international experts, many of whom were bound for a major United Nations environmental summit in Nairobi
Twenty-two UN staff members were among the 157 people killed after Flight ET302 plummeted into a field outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, UN Secretary-General spokesman Stephane Dujarric confirmed to CNN.
— Manuel Barange March 10, 2019 The FAO, the International Organization for Migration in Sudan, the World Bank and the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia each lost one staff member in the crash. The Office of the High Commissioner on Refugees lost two, as did the International Telecommunications Union . Six staff from the UN Office in Nairobi were killed, as were seven employees of the World Food Program .
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