Aug 24 (Reuters) - Somalia's journalists' union identified two western reporters kidnapped near Mogadishu and said on Sunday it believed they were being held hostage by gunmen in the capital. Here is a chronology of journalists who have been attacked in Somalia in the last year. Aug 11, 2007 - Gunmen shoot dead Somali HornAfrik radio journalist and talk show host Mahad Ahmed Elmi outside his station in Mogadishu. Aug 11 - HornAfrik media co-founder Ali Iman Sharmarke is killed by a landmine while travelling in Mogadishu after the funeral of a murdered colleague. Reuters journalist Sahal Abdulle is injured. Aug 24 - Abdulkadir Mahad Moallim Kaskey of local Radio Banadir is killed after attackers open fire on a minibus in southwestern Gedo province. Another passenger is hurt. Oct 19 - Acting chairman of Radio Shabelle, Bashir Nur Gedi, is shot dead by unknown men in his house in Mogadishu. Dec 16 - Gunmen seize French journalist Gwen Le Gouil of television company Cargocult Production. Dec 24 - Somali kidnappers release Le Gouil. Jan 10, 2008 - Four gunmen shoot Abdikheyr Mohammed Jama in the face as he leaves community radio station in Puntland. May 4 - Gunmen open fire on Bisharo Mohammed Waeys, a talk show presenter on privately-owned Eastern Television Network in Puntland, as she drove home. She was unhurt. June 7 - Suspected Islamist insurgents shot dead Nasteh Dahir, a local journalist working for the BBC, in southern Somalia, witnesses said. Aug 23 - Amanda Lindhout, a Canadian reporter based in Baghdad but freelancing for French television and Canada's Global National News, and Nigel Brennan, a freelance Australian photojournalist are kidnapped in Mogadishu. Sources: Reuters/ Reporters Without Borders/ National Union of Somali Journalists.
Kidnapped Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan is seen in this undated handout photo obtained August 24, 2008. Somalia's journalists' union identified two young Western reporters on Sunday who were kidnapped near Mogadishu ...
