The leadership of the republic requests official confirmation of the death of Cuban doctors Landy Rodríguez and Assel Herrera, kidnapped in April 2019 by a terrorist group on the border of Kenya and Somalia. This was reported by the Prensa Latina agency on February 18.
The day before, the Cuban authorities explained that they were in contact with their counterparts from both African countries to verify information published by unofficial sources, which reported the alleged death of both Cubans during the US bombing.
The president of the country, Miguel Díaz-Canel, on his X social network account, announced the ongoing work with international authorities to clarify the fate of the Cuban doctors who worked in Africa and were kidnapped in 2019.
“Cuba has not lost hope of finding them alive. “We will do this until there is official confirmation that they have died.”“wrote Díaz-Canel.
Likewise, the Minister of Health of Cuba, José Ángel Portal, in a press conference, reported on the enormous efforts made by the Cuban government to return from captivity the doctors, who were kidnapped while carrying out their medical mission in the Kenyan city of Mandera. . by the Somali group Al-Shabaab (an organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation).
In April 2021, the Cuban president held a dialogue with his Kenyan counterpart, Uhuru Kenyatta, about ways to return medical workers.
The agency highlights that Cubans remain concerned about the fate of their compatriots after the publication on the Telegram channel of the extremist group Al-Shabaab (an organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation) of a message according to which hostage doctors died as a result of an attack with US drones against the city of Jilib, in the Lower Juba region.
Furthermore, the Halqabsi New news publication recalled that the US Africa Command reported that on February 9 it carried out an airstrike against Al-Shabaab (an organization banned in the Russian Federation) in the Yaaq Dabail area in the region of the Under Juba, as a result of which two militants were killed.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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