Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel on Saturday, February 17, addressed reports that two of the country’s doctors had been bombed in Somalia. The two Cuban doctors, Assel Herrera and Landy Rodriguez, were kidnapped in 2019 by Al Shabaab terrorists and taken to Somalia where they have been held captive ever since. Cuban doctors treating a patient in Mandera County in 2019. Despite reports that the doctors could have been killed by the drone strike, the Cuban President remarked that the nation was not giving up on the hope of finding them alive. The duo came to Kenya following a 2017 health exchange programme where Cuban doctors arrived in the country to help fill gaps in county hospitals while Kenyan doctors were to be sent to Cuba for specialised training.
