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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 December 2024. Journalist and humanitarian (born 1981) Amanda Lindhout Born (1981-06-12) June 12, 1981 (age 43) Red Deer, Alberta, Canada Occupation(s) Journalist, humanitarian, author Organization Global Enrichment Foundation Awards 2014 CBC Bookie Award for Best Canadian Nonfiction Doctor of Laws ...
Amanda Lindhout, was a journalist who was kidnapped on August 23, 2008, alongside her colleagues, Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan, and Somali photojournalist Abdifatah Mohamed Elmi, who were seized near Mogadishu along with two Somali drivers. Abdifatah and the two drivers were released on January 15, 2009.
On 23 August 2008, three days after having arrived in Mogadishu, Nigel Brennan and Amanda Lindhout went to interviews at an IDP camp. On the way they were stopped by gunmen and kidnapped along with their Somali translator, Abdifatah Mohammed Elmi, their driver, Mahad Isse, and a driver from the Shamo Hotel, Marwali. [6]
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A House in the Sky is a 2013 memoir by Amanda Lindhout, co-written with the journalist Sara Corbett.It recounts Lindhout's experience in southern Somalia as a hostage of teenage militants from the Hizbul Islam fundamentalist group.
Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, two of the girls held captive by Ariel Castro, now have honorary high school degrees. John Marshall High School presented them with degrees at the school's ...
The terrifying story of photojournalist Nigel Brennan and reporter Amanda Lindhout, who are held hostage for 15 months by a criminal gang in Somalia. Episode 19: Thailand/Busted in Bangkok Thrown into a notorious Bangkok prison for attempting to smuggle heroin, Angela Carnegie has an epiphany while nursing a fellow inmate with a drug addiction.
"American Nightmare" victims Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn worked with two small-town law enforcement officials to get kidnapper Matthew Muller to confess to more cold case crimes.