Havana/Prensa Latina
Cuba and Somalia are cooperating today to clarify the current situation of the island’s doctors Assel Herrera and Landy Rodríguez kidnapped in 2019 on the border between the African country and Kenya.
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Authorities on the Caribbean island are making enormous efforts to establish the whereabouts of the health specialists who, according to unconfirmed information, are believed to have died following a bombing by the United States Army on February 15.
Earlier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, through the social network itself, thanked the president of Kenya, William Ruto, for his interest in supporting efforts to clarify the facts.
The highest representative of the diplomacy of the Caribbean nation highlighted the immediacy with which Ruto received the president of the Cuban parliament, Esteban Lazo, Special Envoy of the Government of Cuba with the mission of gathering information on this matter.
Lazo traveled to Kenya on Tuesday to inquire about doctors Assel Herrera Correa and Landy Rodríguez Hernández, kidnapped in 2019 by the Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab, while providing health collaboration.
According to unconfirmed news, the doctors would have died as a result of a bombing by the United States African Command (Africom) on positions of the violent organization in the town of Dilib, Somalia.
Cuba gives absolute priority to these efforts, which will continue until all possibilities to confirm the situation of the doctors have been exhausted, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently stated in a statement.
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