World Bank official Max Thabiso Edkins, a South African with dual citizenship, among those who perished in the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 30
11 March 2019 - 23:07A relative reacts after he leaves the information centre following the Ethiopian Airlines crash, at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, March 10 2019. Picture: REUTERS/BAZ RATNER
The World Food Programme said it had seven staff members on board. They included Michael Ryan, a 39-year-old engineer from Ireland. Karoline Aadland, a 28-year-old Norwegian Red Cross worker, was also on her way to Kenya for work, her employer said. She was newly married. Pius Adesanmi, a Nigerian-born professor with the English language and literature department at Carleton University in Ottawa, was among the victims from Canada.
A fellow writer, the Nigerian satirist Elnathan John, said his friend had recently been injured in a car accident. He recalled hosting Adesanmi in Berlin recently. The Tamarind Group, a Kenyan restaurant and leisure company, said it lost its chief executive, Jonathan Seex.
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