A Somali UN official kidnapped in Mogadishu last week has been freed unharmed after five days.
Local elders negotiated the release of Mr Ahmed Mohamed Moalin, a United Nations Children's Fund employee.
The gunmen, who abducted him last Thursday, had demanded a $20,000 ransom, but the mediators said no money was paid in exchange for his release.
Kidnapping of aid workers and members of minority groups is common in Somalia, which has been without a nationally recognised government since the toppling of dictator Mr Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.
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