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Freed a female hostage from Somali pirates

(B2) After two years in captivity, a Kenyan woman was freed this weekend by Somali pirates. Lois Njeri Weru was taken hostage by Somali pirates in November 2014 while delivering medicine to Somalia, reports CCTV Africa. It is important to underline this because in the official counts of the hostages of the Somali pirates not everyone is counted. If the seamen of merchant ships or fishermen sailing in the Indian Ocean are normally free (read: The last 26 sailors hostages of the Somali pirates free!), there are still ten Iranians and four Kenyans in the hands of pirates in Somalia according to the NGO Ocean Beyond Piracy.

(NGV)

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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