Mogadishu-Somalia: 23 August,2008

SOJRA is concerned for the safety of two foreign freelance journalists and also a freelance Somali cameraman Abdi-fitah Mohamed Elmi, Amanda she is a Canadian female freelance journalist and Michael who is an Australian freelance cameraman who were kidnapped between Hawa Abdi small village and Sarkus area all these places are between Mogadishu and Afgoe district.

 These foreign journalists were apparently seized during a visit to camps for displaced civilians at Elasha Biyaha, south of the city to report on the humanitarian situations in Somalia.

"They left us this morning to visit internally-displaced camps on the outside of Mogadishu," said Mohamed Elmi a former of STN-TV director and a father of the freelance Somali cameraman.,

"Now they are nowhere to be found. He added.