Kenyan support laborers "free" from Somalia's al-Shabab

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Two Kenyan support laborers have been discovered "lost and disorientated" in Somalia in the wake of being abducted by al-Shabab in 2011, the military says.

Daniel Njuguna and James Kiarie are presently in clinic in the Somali town of Dhobley, the armed force says.

They are currently under the watchful eye of Kenyan troops working with the African Union constrain in Somalia, Amisom.

Kenya sent troops into Somalia in 2011 taking after a spate of kidnappings in fringe territories.

Amisom troops are helping government strengths fight al-Shabab, an Islamist volunteer army which is a piece of al-Qaeda and which controls much of southern and focal Somalia.

Dhobley is under the control of Kenyan troops and is close to the outskirt.

Kenyan armed force agent Col Willy Wesonga questioned reports the pair had been liberated in February in the wake of changing over to Islam.

He told the BBC that in the event that you discharge somebody you have grabbed, you need to hand them over to the powers.

The pair will be exchanged to Nairobi on Saturday, the armed force says.

Mr Kiarie works for Care International, the armed force says. MSF have denied a prior report that Mr Njuguna is one of their representatives.

They were initially grabbed along the Kenya-Somalia outskirt, where there is an immense help operation to adapt to the a huge number of Somalis who have fled two decades of viciousness.

Dadaab, over the fringe from Dhobley, is said to be the world's biggest