In the recently issued Quarterly Civilian Casualty Assessment Report, the U.S. Military Command Africa (Africom) acknowledges that the U.S. Armed Forces conducted a bombing near the town of Jilib, Somalia, on April 15, 2019.
However, the document asserts that the attack did not cause the death of civilians, and no explicit mention is made of Cuban doctors Assel Herrera and Landy Rodriguez.
The text, which recognizes the indiscriminate use of means of war against the civilian population, but does not offer any clarity on the island's doctors, deserved the response of the member of the Political Bureau of the Party and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, on the social network X.
"It is surprising the information released by the U.S. spokesman that brings nothing new about our compatriots Assel and Landy. Since April we have been waiting, without response, for inquiries that Cuba officially requested regarding Africom's attacks in another Somali locality," the Foreign Minister wrote.
On April 12, Cuba accused the United States of not responding "with the seriousness and urgency required" to Havana's requests to clarify the alleged death of the two doctors kidnapped by Al Shabab in Kenya.
Avoiding the response about what happened to the doctors who were saving lives in African territory and the lack of transparency in the information provided, increases the responsibility for the acts committed.





