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More Details: Foreign Aid workers kidnapped from Dadaab refugee camp near Somalia border

Unknow Gunmen have been kidnapped a car with four foreign Aid workers on Friday in IFO2 refugee camp near Dadaab in Northern Kenya.

According to the Associated Press news agency, a convoy of aid workers from the Norwegian Refugee Council was ambushed by gunmen in Dadaab Refugee camp.

The attack happened close to the compound of Norwegian Refugee Council within IFO2 in Dadaab Camp, the world’s largest refugee camp.

Police sources told that a driver was killed in the assault who works with NRC.

A Norwegian Refugee Council official in Oslo told AP it was trying to get information on the attack and could not confirm the reports.

Islamists from the al-Qaeda group al-Shabab control large swathes of the country.

“So far we have not confirmed the nationalities of the four foreign workers who were kidnapped,” Philip Ndolo, from the Kenyan police, told Reuters news agency.

“We suspect this could be the work of al-Shabab sympathisers.”

Aid workers with MSF have been kidnapped from Dadaab refugee camp in the last year and many other workers have withdrawn from the camp.

Kenyan troops, Last October, entered Somalia for invasion against al-Shabab militants, they accuse of being behind various kidnappings in side Kenyan.

Somalia has had no effective central government since 1991.

Ahmed Haji Hassan
Warqaad.com
Nairobi,Kenya
Email” Daaci@gmail.com

5 Responses to More Details: Foreign Aid workers kidnapped from Dadaab refugee camp near Somalia border

  1. Aden says:

    I hope the kidnappers to release them due to their assistance provided for Refugees.

  2. Abdi says:

    I,m happy to hear that why do they inter fairs us the deploped to us thousand of troops.

  3. Somali damu says:

    Abdi you should talk in that way bro.you know kenyan troops got in 2 somalia to bring peace stability in somalia. let not ignorancy lead u in to wrong direction.surely they dont have any other intrest except 2 help somali community and you know somalia pple are starving in their own country.stop helpless, wiseless ideas and say sth can bring change.thanks.by wadani

  4. Khatumo state of somali says:

    Yes somalia are our country without any central goverment that led our society to flee to the camps build up by the un in order to save themselves intensive wars going on in somalia morthen decades wich coused more deads and demolishment today it need a hand to be given to rescue from both starvation and anything bothering them

  5. Gomey says:

    Iam stronly supporting the words of abdi because the reason as to why alshabab are kidnapping the workers is that you know kenyans they enter in our country with out asking purmission to no one at the same time they are mistreating to our innocent pple

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