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Cuba thanks Somalia for supporting the return of kidnapped doctors

Havana —  Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla announced on Monday on Twitter he had a telephone conversation with his Somali counterpart Ahmed Isse Awad about the two Cuban doctors kidnapped in Kenya in 2019 while they were fulfilling their internationalist collaboration.

According to Rodriguez Parrilla, he thanked his Somali counterpart for his government’s support and efforts to ensure the safe return of Cuban collaborators Assel Herrera Correa and Landy Rodriguez Hernandez, who were kidnapped by alleged members of the radical Islamic group Al Shabab on their way to Mandera hospital near the Somali border.

The collaborators’ kidnapping took place in the early morning of April 12, 2019, and since then; the highest Cuban authorities have maintained channels of communication with the governments of Nairobi and Mogadishu, in order to achieve the safe return of the two doctors to Cuba.

Source: ACN       Origin: View original

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