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| Somalia: Amanda Lindhout & Nigel Brennan have been released |
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| Wednesday, 25 November 2009 19:05 | ||
MOGADISHU - Two freelance journalists kidnapped in Somalia in August 2008 were freed on Wednesday and are in a hotel in the capital Mogadishu, a Somali member of parliament and hotel sources said. The member of parliament said the two journalists were brought from southern Mogadishu by militiamen and were then handed over to the people who had negotiated the release. An employee at the Sahafi hotel, who declined to be named, told Reuters he saw a white man with a beard and a woman wearing the "hijab" in the building on Thursday evening. Somalia has lacked an effective central government for 18 years. The Western-backed administration of President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed is battling al Shabaab and other rebel groups, and controls little more than a few parts of the capital Mogadishu. Lawless Somalia is a dangerous place for foreign aid workers and journalists as they risk being kidnapped and held by gunmen until a ransom is paid. Many local aid workers and journalists have been killed, however. More than 200 foreign hostages, seized along with ships by pirates, are also being held off the coast of Somalia. Source: Reuters  Share this article with others:      The comment section is restricted to members only. |
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