Two Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) female staff members who were kidnapped in Somalia a week ago were released on Wednesday, sources of the Spanish and Argentine foreign ministries said, according to dpa. Spanish physician Mercedes Garcia, 51, and Argentine nurse Pilar Bauza, 26, were at a hotel in Bosasso, according to Spanish reports. A Spanish representative for MSF said the women were in good health, and that it was not yet known when they would fly home. The kidnappers reportedly demanded a ransom of 250,000 dollars for the aid workers, who were manhandled at gunpoint out of their car in Bosasso, in the Puntland region of the Horn of African nation. Spanish Foreign Ministry sources did not comment on whether a ransom was paid. Argentine sources confirmed the release of the aid workers, without giving further details. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana reportedly spoke to Bauza over the phone.
