HAVANA ( HALBEEG NEWS ) – The Government of Cuba has thanked the Federal Government of Somalia for its crucial role in securing the release of its doctors.
The doctors were released over the weekend after months of negotiations with their captors.
Surgeon Landy Rodríguez and general medicine specialist Assel Herrera were kidnapped on April 12, 2019, from the Kenyan border town of Mandera when the car in which they were traveling to the hospital was attacked by the armed group Al-Shabaab.
Somali intelligence, acting at the request of the Cuban government, negotiated for the doctors’ release after it obtained a video showing them a few months ago.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez spoke by phone with his Somalian counterpart, Ahmed Isse Awad, about the two Cuban doctors kidnapped almost a year and six months ago, while working in Kenya.
“I had a telephone conversation with Somalian Foreign Minister Mr. Ahmed Isse Awad. I appreciated the support and efforts of his government to guarantee the safe return of our kidnapped doctors,” the island’s minister of foreign affairs published on his Twitter account.
The two sides pledged to strengthen bilateral ties during the phone conversation.
“we will strengthen bilateral ties between the two governments” Rodríguez also wrote on his twitter.
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