Kenyan Hostage Returns Home
NAIROBI, KENYA and BROOMFIELD, USA, February 22, 2015 — JAMES Gachamba Kuria returned home to his family in Nairobi today after being kidnapped in Somalia in November 2014 and held for ransom by Somali Pirates.
BACKGROUND
James Kuria and his partner Lois Njoki Weru were part of a programme delivering homeopathic medicines in Somalia and were taken hostage on 24 Nov 14. The two were held hostage in the Somali Village of Camaara in central Somalia by a criminal gang including pirates with experience of negotiating for hostages.