Aid workers released in Somalia

**Four European aid workers and two Kenyan pilots kidnapped nine months ago in Somalia have been released, French aid group Action Against Hunger says.**The group were taken captive from an airstrip in the central town of Dhusa-Mareb last November.

“Apparently all are in good health, they’ll have medical check-ups,” Action Against Hunger said in a statement.

Somalia is nominally ruled by a UN-backed government but Islamist insurgents control large areas.

Those freed include two French women, one Bulgarian woman and a Belgian man.