(CNN) -- Two Kenyan aid workers who had been held by the al Qaeda-linked militant group Al-Shabaab since 2011 have been rescued near Somalia's border with Kenya, the African Union Mission in Somalia said Friday. 

The rescue was carried out on the outskirts of Dhobley town in Somalia by peacekeepers for the mission, known by the acronym AMISOM, who were working with Somali forces, AMISOM said in a news release. 

One of the rescued, James Kiarie Gichoi, was working for Care International when he was kidnapped near the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. 

The other, Daniel Njuguna Wanyoike, was working as a driver's helper for a company contracted by the aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres when he was kidnapped in Afmadow, a nearby town in Somalia. 

Both men were receiving treatment Friday at an AMISOM medical facility in nearby Dhobley, Somalia, and were expected to be repatriated to Nairobi, Kenya. 

AMISOM forces working with the Somali National Army have mounted an offensive that has liberated 10 towns that were among Al-Shabaab's strongholds, said AMISOM, the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia. 

Al-Shabaab, designated a foreign terrorist organization by the United States, has a relationship with al Qaeda that goes back several years. In 2012, the two groups effectively merged, said CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen. 

Al-Shabaab hopes to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state, but has launched attacks in other countries as well. 

In 2010, Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda, amid crowds of soccer fans watching televised screenings of the World Cup final. The bombings left 74 people dead. 
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near Somalia's border with Kenya
near Somalia's border with Kenya
Two Kenyan aid workers
Two Kenyan aid workers who had been held by the al Qaeda-linked militant group
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by the al Qaeda-linked militant group Al-Shabaab 
al Qaeda
al Qaeda-linked militant group Al-Shabaa
for Care International
James Kiarie Gichoi, was working for Care International 
James Kiarie Gichoi
 James Kiarie Gichoi, was working for Care International
Daniel Njuguna Wanyoike
 Daniel Njuguna Wanyoike, was working as a driver's helper
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Daniel Njuguna Wanyoike, was working as a driver's helper
a town in Somalia.
 a nearby town in Somalia. 
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 kidnapped near the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. 

The other, Daniel Njuguna Wanyoike, was working as a driver's helper for a company contracted by the aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres when he was kidnapped in Afmadow, a nearby town in Somalia. 
AMISOM did
The rescue was carried out on the outskirts of Dhobley town in Somalia by peacekeepers for the mission, known by the acronym AMISOM
Somali forces
who were working with Somali forces, AMISOM said in a news release. 
at an AMISOM medical facility
Both men were receiving treatment Friday at an AMISOM medical facility
in nearby Dhobley
AMISOM medical facility in nearby Dhobley,
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and were expected to be repatriated to Nairobi, Kenya. 

to Nairobi, Kenya
 and were expected to be repatriated to Nairobi, Kenya. 

they hope to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state
Al-Shabaab hopes to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state, 
two suicide bombings
In 2010, Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings
in Kampala, Uganda
suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda,
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The bombings left 74 people dead.