Italian aid group says founder among crash dead

dig on Paolo Dieci

An Italian aid group that partners with UNICEF in northern Africa says one of its founders, Paolo Dieci, is among the dead in the Ethiopian Airlines crash.

The International Committee for the Development of Peoples, known by its acronym CISP, in a statement said "the world of international cooperation has lost one of its most brilliant advocates and Italian civil society has lost a precious point of reference."

UNICEF Italia sent a tweet of condolences over Dieci's death. It noted that CISP was a UNICEF partner in Kenya, Libya and Algeria

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