{"id":196806,"date":"2019-04-15T10:06:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T14:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=196806"},"modified":"2019-04-15T10:06:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T14:06:04","slug":"cuban-and-kenyan-foreign-ministers-talk-on-the-phone-about-the-kidnapped-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/cuban-and-kenyan-foreign-ministers-talk-on-the-phone-about-the-kidnapped-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban and Kenyan foreign ministers talk on the phone about the kidnapped doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodr\u00edguez held this Saturday a telephone conversation with his Kenyan counterpart Monica Juma about the actions that the African country is carrying out in connection with the kidnapping on Friday of two Cuban doctors, allegedly carried out by members of the Somali Al Shabab jihadist group.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our health collaborators are safe in <\/span>#Kenya<\/span><\/a>. The <\/span>#Cuban<\/span><\/a> Embassy in <\/span>#Nairobi<\/span><\/a> maintains permanent communication with them and keeps family members informed. We maintain constant follow-up with the Kenyan authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n

– Bruno Rodr\u00edguez P (@BrunoRguezP) <\/span>April 13, 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“I held a telephone conversation with #Kenyan Foreign Minister Monica Juma. We talked about the kidnapping of the two Cuban doctors and the actions carried out by her country\u2019s government in the face of this unfortunate incident. She passed on her solidarity with the relatives,” Rodr\u00edguez announced on his Twitter account.<\/span><\/p>\n

In another post, Rodriguez stressed that the health professionals who are carrying out their mission in Kenya “are safe” and added that the Cuban embassy in Nairobi “maintains permanent communication with them and keeps family members informed.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“We maintain constant follow-up with the Kenyan authorities,” adds the Cuban foreign minister\u2019s tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OnCuba\/posts\/2165479373548001<\/p>\n

The Cuban government has formed a working group to follow up on the kidnapping of the two doctors, allegedly committed by armed men suspected of belonging to the Somali Al Shabab jihadist group.<\/span><\/p>\n

Assel Herrera, specialist in Comprehensive General Medicine in the province of Las Tunas, and Landy Rodriguez, specialist in surgery in the province of Villa Clara, were kidnapped on Friday when they were being escorted in a local government car to the hospital in Mandera, a county in the northeast of Kenya bordering Somalia, where they were stationed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Police Spokesman Charles Owino says search and rescue for abducted Cuban doctors intensified; Havana constantly briefed on progress.<\/p>\n

— Ali 'Mwamvita' Manzu (@Ali_Manzu) April 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n