Kibaki hails rescue of Kenyan in Afghanistan
A Kenyan family was on Saturday rejoicing after their daughter was dramatically rescued from abductors who captured her nearly two weeks ago in Afghanistan. Read (We are happy our daughter is safe, says family)
Ms Moragwa Oirere, 26, was rescued alongside three other aid workers in a raid on a cave by British and American special forces.
President Kibaki described the rescue operation as “impressively swift, ingenious and heroic”.
“Kenyans are delighted and grateful to the British Government and all parties involved for freeing Moragwa Oirere and all her colleagues,” said the President in a Presidential Press Service dispatch.
Others who were being held in the cave in Badakhshan province in the north of Afghanistan were Ms Helen Johnson, 24, and two Afghans.
They worked for Medair, a humanitarian non-governmental organisation based n
Source Sunday Nations
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