Dear editor,
Recently an Australian reporter, Nigel Brenan and his Canadian colleague Amanda Lindhout went missing in Somalia.

In fact, a representative for the transitional government told the AFP news agency he believed the two were in captivity, but their where-about unknown.

The alarm was raised on Saturday when a security official at their hotel in Mogadishu said they had not returned from a trip to visit displaced people outside the city.

So one wonders why journalists continue to risk their lives in such countries.

Somalia is a country where even armed peacekeepers are at great risk.

Therefore, when I see unarmed journalists venturing into that dangerous environment, I fail to understand their ambitions.

Is it because they want to make good news or history? I need to be educated.

NYAMIRAMBO