Somali authorities holding 'some 50 foreign nationals'

Somali officials are holding up to 50 foreign nationals, the Danish Foreign Ministry said today.

Somalia’s foreign minister, Ismael Mohamoud Hurreh, told Denmark’s ambassador to Kenya that “about 50 foreigners are detained, including several Scandinavians, and at least one of them is a Dane,” said Lars Thuesen, head of the Danish ministry’s consular department.