Fear has grappled the country ever since the increased terror like crimes heightened in the country with the most recent disturbing act being the kidnap of two Cuban doctors in Mandera.
Their fate has been hanging in the air as we remain in the dark over their state and why as well where they were taken even as it is reported they crossed the Somalia border.
On Monday, RTN Somali TV announced that security forces deployed in the interior parts of Somalia had located the doctors although it did not give further details on the same.
“Cuban Doctors Landy Rodriguez Hernandez and Dr. Assel Herrera Correa reportedly sighted alive in the forested Halaanqo area near Barawe four days after their capture,” the station reported.
Foreign Affairs minister Monica Juma on Thursday said a multi-agency operation is ongoing in Somalia, adding that she’s optimistic it would yield results. She also said that elders from Mandera had crossed over the border to negotiate with their counterparts in Somalia to resolve the predicament.
Dr. Juma however, did not link the abduction to those that were carried in the North Eastern by Al-Shabaab militants, adding that the case could be unique given it’s ‘nature’.
KDF team chosen from Rangers Strike Regiment (Special Forces and Rangers Strike Force) have camped in Somalia and are said to have intensified search and rescue mission. They are trained in UK and the US.
The government decided to recall all the medics working at the border counties following the abduction of two Cuban doctors.