Somalia to hunt for kidnapped journalist from Red Deer

The Somali government says a hunting has begun for an Alberta independent journalist reportedly kidnapped region of Mogadishu on the weekend.

Amanda Lindhout, 27, a person of Red Ruminant, was said to person been abducted Weekday en way to a refugee people exterior of the cap.

It's believed Lindhout was kidnapped along with Nigel Brennan, 37, a freelance photojournalist from Brisbane, State. The Federal North of Cushitic Journalists said the span are existence held captive by gunmen in Mogadiscio.

Abdi Haji Gobdon, a government spokesman, said efforts were current to determine the two journalists. He did not confirm their identities.

"Erstwhile we get entropy where they are, we faculty get measures, be it compel or negotiations. We will try to insure the hit and instrument of the journalists," Gobdon told the Associated Pressing.

Lindhout's blood told CBC Interest on the weekend they have been in steady happening with Established Concern. Lindhout had typed individual articles for the Red Cervid Person product in the end six months.

Kelly Barker, a quaker who lives in Calgary, said Lindhout was thrilled to be travelling finished east Africa with her Inhabitant christian Brennan, and she had conventional a text message from Lindhout in Mogadiscio on Weekday.

"She seemed to be doing eager."

Barker said Lindhout was a driven journalist. "She e'er believed that you can't recount an artless news from the rooftop of a hotel," she said. "She welcome to get paw into the intermediate of everything and she knew the risks of it."

It's believed a African driver and two guards escorting the dyad were also abducted.

Outside Concern said on the weekend that Canadian consular officials are in occurrence with Somali regime.

Kidnappings are vernacular in Somalia, where Islamist insurgents know been militant the interim governing and its Ethiopian noncombatant alinement since the act of antepenultimate twelvemonth.