KIDNAPPED KENYAN OFFICIALS RELEASED AFTER TWO MONTHS, MINISTER SAYS. (PHOTO).

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Kidnapped Kenyan officials released after two months, minister says Five local Kenyan officials have been released from captivity, Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen said on Monday, two months after they were kidnapped by suspected Islamist gunmen in the northeast of the country, Reuters reported. Gunmen believed to be from the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group abducted the village chiefs, who were government-appointed local officials, in Mandera county in February near the border of Somalia, where the insurgents are based. "We decided to work together with the community, and to work with the county government of Mandera... and this process has borne fruit," Murkomen told journalists, according to footage by broadcaster NTV Kenya seen on X. Local media reported that al Shabaab had taken the chiefs across the border into Somalia. Murkomen said the chiefs were in the hands of Kenyan officials and that they would be "arriving home any time soon," though he did not say...

SECOND BATCH OF NIGERIANS ARRIVE FROM SOUTH AFRICA.{PHOTO}.

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    The second batch of Nigerians that opted for evacuation from South Africa over xenophobic attacks have arrived Nigeria after embarking on the journey by 3:00 pm on Wednesday September 18.
The 314 returnees and the Head of Immigration and Consular Matters at Nigeriaā€™s Consulate General in Johannesburg, Mr. Anthony Ogbe arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport around 7:20 pm.
The South Africa returnees are currently being profiled by immigration.
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