Cuba and Somalia cooperate to clarify the whereabouts of kidnapped doctors

Havana, Feb 22 (RHC) Cuba and Somalia are cooperating to clarify the current situation of Cuban doctors Assel Herrera and Landy Rodríguez, kidnapped in 2019 on the border between Somalia and Kenya.

According to a post on X, Cuban minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez held a telephone conversation with his Somali counterpart, Ali Mohamed Omar, in which they agreed on the need to cooperate to clarify the status of both doctors.

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, Rodríguez thanked through the same social network 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 Esteban Lazo, president of the Cuban parliament and 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. (Source: PL)