Havana, September 15 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel assured on Thursday that efforts to return to the country of two doctors kidnapped in Kenya by the Somali jihadist group Al Shabab have not ceased.

On Twitter, the President recalled that Assel Herrera Correa, "one of our doctors kidnapped in Kenya, is turning 53 years old this September 15".

 "We send him and all his family our embrace, our support, and the assurance that we continue fighting for his and Landy's return to the Homeland. Cuba does not abandon its children," he added.

Surgeon Landy Rodriguez Hernandez and General Medicine specialist Assel Herrera Correa were kidnapped on April 12, 2019, in the Kenyan city of Mandera, on the border with Somalia,   by the jihadist group Al Shabab.

Since then, Cuban authorities have given an account of steps for the return of the doctors, as well as contacts with their relatives. The Kenyan government also reported efforts for the same purpose.