![Italian volunteer aid worker Silvia Costanza Romano (R), who was kidnapped in Kenya in late 2018, wearing a khimar and face mask, embraces her father Enzo upon her arrival at Rome’s military Ciampino airport on May 11, 2020, following her release. Silvia Romano was 23 and working as a volunteer in the orphanage in Chakama village in southeast Kenya when she was seized by gunmen in November 2018.
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Italian volunteer aid worker Silvia Romano embraces her father Enzo upon her arrival in Rome following her release by a militant group. AFP
Italian volunteer aid worker Silvia Romano embraces her father Enzo upon her arrival in Rome following her release by a militant group. AFP
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