Havana on Thursday rejected as inadequate a current assertion from the USA over the destiny of two Cuban medical doctors kidnapped in Kenya 5 years in the past by Somalia-based jihadists.
The Al-Shabaab militant group claimed in February that medical doctors Assel Herrera and Landy Rodriguez have been killed that very same month in a US bombardment of town of Jilib.
However the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) stated in a current report {that a} assessment of accessible info concluded that “the US air strike performed on Feb 15, 2024 didn’t end in civilian hurt.”
The Granma newspaper, a mouthpiece of the Cuban authorities, stated in an article Thursday that the AFRICOM assertion “doesn’t point out the Cuban medical doctors explicitly.”
And Overseas Minister Bruno Rodriguez stated on X Wednesday that the US report “provides nothing new,” including Havana has been ready since April “for an inquiry that #Cuba formally requested about AFRICOM assaults” elsewhere in Somalia.
The claims by the Islamist group, which has been waging a bloody insurgency towards the delicate central authorities in Mogadishu for 16 years, couldn’t be independently verified.
The medical doctors have been a part of a 100-member Cuban medical brigade working in Kenya below a bilateral settlement after they have been taken in April 2019.
Cuba has medical brigades in additional than 50 nations as a part of its so-called “white coat diplomacy.”
