Two men held in Guantanamo Bay for nearly eight years have been released to Africa. Announcing the release, the Pentagon said Abdul Aziz Naji has been repatriated to Algeria. Abd-al-Nisr Mohammed Khantumani, of Syria, has been transferred to the island of Cape Verde, West Africa.Mr Naji had been held at Guantanamo since 2002. The US government had alleged that he belonged to the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group in Pakistan. Mr Khantumani, from Syria, is the first Guantanamo inmate to be resettled on Cape Verde. According to the Center for Constitutional Rights he had been detained in Guantanamo along with his father since 2002, when he was only 17. The transfers bring the number of remaining detainees at Guantanamo to 178, down from 245 when President Obama took office in January 2009.