On 26 August, the government of Norway reported that a Norwegian woman was among the 18 people killed in a suicide bomb attack on the office complex of the United Nations (UN) in Abuja, Nigeria.
In a first statement in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, the country’s Foreign Minister, Jonas Gahr Stoere, had said “a Norwegian woman employed by the UN was among the dead”, but did not identity the victim.
The Norwegian government subsequently named the victim as Ingrid Midtgaard, a 30-year-old lawyer.
Ingrid joined the UN Country Office Nigeria in November 2010 as an Associate Expert on the Nigeria Country Team of the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Information on a UNODC source in Abuja said “she was assisting in backstopping in the anti-corruption related portfolio”. Her work also involved “supporting future programming in the areas of drugs and crime, anti-corruption and Justice Sector Reform”.
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