Spokesman for Global Affairs Canada says consular officials in Nairobi have been in contact with local authorities
“Global Affairs Canada is aware that two Canadian citizens are detained in Somalia,” spokesman John Babcock says.
However Jason Jeremias, a New York-based civil rights activist with an organization called Price of Silence, who first contacted The Globe and Mail about the matter, says the detained are two women. Mr. Jeremias, who said he knows Ms. Abdi through her work with persecuted women, said the two Canadians were arrested in January.
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