Crisis Preparedness: Lessons from a Kidnapping

Crisis Preparedness: Lessons from a Kidnapping

Feb 21, 2017 | Security

On October 25, 2011, a young American humanitarian aid worker, Jessica Buchanan, was in Somalia teaching children how to avoid landmines when she and her colleague were kidnapped for ransom by Somali bandits. They were held in the desert at gunpoint for 93 days before...