Carabinieri officers will to back to Kenya to work with local police on the case of missing aid worker Silvia Romano, who vanished there last November, Italian and Kenyan investigators agreed at a meeting in Rome on Friday.
At the meeting, held at the foreign ministry, Italian investigators vowed to help Kenyan counterparts probe an alleged graft case linked to three dams that a company from Italy's northern Emilia-Romagna region won a tender to build.
Romano, 23, was kidnapped on 20 November in an armed attack in a coastal area of Kilifi County, 80 kilometres from Malindi. She volunteers for the Africa Milele NGO based in Torno in Italy's eastern March region.
Romano was still alive at Christmas last year, according to two Kenyans who allegedly abducted her and who were arrested in December. They allege that Romano was immediately handed over to another group.
There have been numerous appeals for Romano's release including from Italy's president Sergio Mattarella.
The Italian aid worker was first foreigner to be kidnapped in Kenya since the country had a spate of abductions threaten its tourism resurgence in 2011.
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