A Somali Islamist group denies kidnapping a British woman at a remote holiday resort in Kenya.
Somali militants could be responsible for killing a British man in Kenya and kidnapping his wife, a Chatham House expert tells Channel 4 News.
Exclusive: In his first TV interview, former London minicab driver Dahir Abdullahi Kadiye describes his role in the release of the British yachting couple Paul and Rachel Chandler.
Jon Snow
As school boys we were excited to learn that Western spies could now read number plates in Moscow’s Red Square – that was well over three decades ago. How come then, as the freed kidnap victims Paul and Rachel Chandler return home, a bunch of crude Somali pirates are able to run rings around the most sophisticated navies the world has ever known?
The couple held hostage for more than a year in Somalia set foot back on British soil tonight.
The freed Somali hostages Paul and Rachel Chandler are expected to return home from Nairobi “very soon”. Katie Razzall gauges the reaction of the UK Somali community to their kidnapping, and release.
British yachting couple Paul and Rachel Chandler are freed alive, after being held hostage in Somalia by pirates for more than a year.
EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Rugman, reporting from Nairobi, meets the former London minicab driver who claims to have masterminded the release of the British yachting couple Paul and Rachel Chandler.
Paul and Rachel Chandler are in “good spirits” their family says in a statement, passing on the couples’ thanks to all those who helped secure their release.
A British aid worker with Save The Children has been kidnapped by gunmen in Somalia, our Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Jonathan Rugman writes.
British yachting couple Paul and Rachel Chandler, kidnapped by Somali pirates seven months ago, describe the “mental torture” of almost 100 days in solitary confinement.
After the interview, I thought what it must be like for the poor Chandlers, surrounded by men armed with heavy machine guns who have no value for human life, writes Jamal Osman. For them, killing is part of everyday life.
The British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates, have used their first TV interview in captivity to congratulate David Cameron on election victory and to seek government help to secure their freedom.
When Paul and Rachel Chandler began blogging from their yacht, the Lynn Rival, they did not know their dream trip across the Indian Ocean would turn into a hostage crisis.
In a shift to British policy the UK is set to announce its first aid package to war-torn Somalia amid concerns that the country could harbour al-Qaida militants.