HAWIYE Kidnappers demand ransom

MOGADISHU(TF.SF)—Somali Hawiye gangsters who kidnapped three foreign aid workers from Mandera town in North Eastern province of Kenya demanded ransom on Monday.
One of the kidnappers, who rejected to be named, told local Habar Gidir own radio station shabelle that they held captive three foreign aid workers and their condition was good.He described the nationalities of the three aid workers as American, Zimbabwean, and Pakistani. They were working for the Action Against Hunger (ACF) aid agency. The kidnappers did not specify the amount of money which they wanted from the Aid workers and where they held them. The three foreign aid workers were kidnapped on 18 June, 2009 from Mandere, a Kenyan town close to the Somali border by the gangs and took them into Somalia. Foreigners are regularly kidnapped in Somalia, which has been mired in civil war since 1991, and usually freed in return for a ransom. Journalists and aid workers are particularly targeted...MORE..http://allafrica.com/stories/200908031268.html