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I couldn’t believe I was free, Kenyan journalist says after kidnap

When James Gachamba, boarded a plane on May 11, 2014 for Somalia in search of greener pastures, he never imagined the horror that awaited him.

Gachamba, a journalist from Gatundu South, had clinched a job in a private hospital in Mogadishu.

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