{"id":6634,"date":"2020-10-08T22:24:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T22:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=6634"},"modified":"2020-10-10T10:00:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T10:00:37","slug":"somalia-and-cuba-deny-reports-of-release-of-two-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2020\/10\/08\/somalia-and-cuba-deny-reports-of-release-of-two-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia &#038; Cuba deny reports of release of two doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU\/HAVANA &#8212;<\/strong> Somalia and Cuban governments have denied recent reports that al-Shabab militants have released two Cuban doctors they held captive in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Associated Press reports that a Somali intelligence official told them the doctors had been released over the weekend, following lengthy negotiations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somali Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmed Isse Awad said the Somali government was not aware of the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSome international media reported the release of Cuban doctors held hostage in Somalia that news is not from the Somali government, it is a fabrication,\u201d Awad said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cuban Foreign Ministry spokesman Juan Antonio Fern\u00e1ndez Palacio also denied the release of Assel Herrera Correa and Landy Rodr\u00edguez Hern\u00e1ndez.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Al-Shabaab abducted the doctors from Mandera, Kenya in April 2019, killing their bodyguards and then bringing them to Somalia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Source: Somali\u00a0 Dispatch\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somalidispatch.com\/latest-news\/somalia-cuba-deny-the-release-of-abducted-doctors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU\/HAVANA &#8212; Somalia and Cuban governments have denied recent reports that al-Shabab militants have released two Cuban doctors they held captive in Somalia. The Associated Press reports that a Somali intelligence official told them the doctors had been released over the weekend, following lengthy negotiations. Somali Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmed Isse Awad said the Somali &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,10],"tags":[1122,1123,1124,1118,1121,1120,1117,1119],"class_list":["post-6634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-cluster","category-news","category-protection-cluster","tag-ahmed-isse-awad","tag-cuban-foreign-ministry-spokesman","tag-juan-antonio-fernandez-palacio","tag-reports-of-release","tag-somali-foreign-affairs-minister","tag-somali-government","tag-somalia-and-cuba","tag-two-doctors"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6650,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions\/6650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}