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Extremists release 2 Cuban doctors in Somalia, officials say

by Associated Press
| October 7, 2020 5:30 AM

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The al-Qaida-linked extremist group al-Shabab has released two Cuban doctors who were kidnapped in Kenya and held for a year and a half in neighboring Somalia, officials say. But a Cuban official has denied it.

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