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    Foreign Affairs: pursuing all channels to protect Canadians, as long as it doesn’t involve leaving the embassy compound

    Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout has been held captive in Somalia since August. In January, her Somali colleague Abdifatah Mohammad Elmi, was released. The CBC’s David McGuffin tracked him down in Kenya, where he revealed that no one from the Canadian government has been in touch since his release.