{"id":20951,"date":"2019-04-20T04:56:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T03:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mustaqbalradio.net\/?p=20951"},"modified":"2019-04-20T04:56:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T03:56:52","slug":"cuban-president-consults-kenyan-somali-counterparts-over-abducted-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/cuban-president-consults-kenyan-somali-counterparts-over-abducted-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban president consults Kenyan, Somali counterparts over abducted doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel spoke by phone on Thursday with his counterparts in Kenya and Somalia about negotiations for the release of two Cuban doctors abducted a week ago in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz-Canel said via Twitter that he spoke with Kenya&#8217;s Uhuru Kenyatta and Somalia&#8217;s Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed &#8220;as part of our efforts to secure the return of our two kidnapped doctors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Six days ago, doctors Assel Herrera and Landy Rodriguez were ambushed by armed men who were suspected members of Al-Shabaab, on their way to work in a Kenyan community near the border with Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>In the attack, one of the police officers escorting the doctors was shot dead.<\/p>\n<p>The doctors are part of a brigade of some 100 Cuban healthcare workers who provide medical services mainly to residents of remote communities, in this case Mandera county.<\/p>\n<p>Attacks by Al-Shabaab fighters are frequent in the area as the rebels try to pressure the Kenyan government into withdrawing its troops from Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>According to the head of the Cuban Medical Mission in Kenya, the rest of the brigade is safe and security measures have been stepped up, especially in areas bordering Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>Source:Xinhua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel spoke by phone on Thursday with his counterparts in Kenya and Somalia about negotiations for the release of two Cuban doctors abducted a week ago in Kenya. Diaz-Canel said via Twitter that he spoke with Kenya&#8217;s Uhuru Kenyatta and Somalia&#8217;s Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed &#8220;as part of our efforts to secure the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}