Kidnapping industry is booming in Puntland.......

[Adan*5]

Tribal warlord Cadde Muuse and his crime syndicate from the northeast is making huge money on ransom lately..is it nearing the downfall of this notorious clique?they seem desperate these days ..lol

Argentina hopes nurse abducted in Somalia is freed Friday

Fri Dec 28, 12:07 AM ET

BUENOS AIRES (AFP) - Argentina's government expressed hope Thursday that an Argentine nurse who was kidnapped in Somalia this week will be released as early as Friday.
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"There is an atmosphere of positive hope," Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana told reporters. "We think that tomorrow (Friday) morning there could be a positive solution for this matter, which worries us and which we are following very closely."

"There is information that Pilar Bauza is alive and well. We hope for a positive solution tomorrow morning, but we must be cautious."

Bauza, 25, and a fellow member of the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), Spanish doctor Mercedes Garcia, were kidnapped on Wednesday in Somalia's northern breakaway region of Puntland.

Police continued search operations for the two aid workers on Thursday in a mountainous area where the kidnappers are hiding, Puntland Trade Minister Abdishamad Yusuf Abwan told AFP.