A kidnapped Italian aid worker who had been held in an al-Shabab-controlled area of Somalia has been freed.
Silvia Romano arrived in Rome on Sunday after being freed outside Mogadishu on Saturday. She spent overnight in a safe location in Mogadishu before being flown home.
Security officials told VOA Somali that Romano was recovered from a forest near the town of Afgoye, 30 kilometers west of Mogadishu.
The terms of her release are not known.
Source – VOA
