TIMELINE - Attacks on journalists in Somalia

(Reuters) - Somali kidnappers have freed two journalists, British correspondent Colin Freeman and Spanish photographer Jose Cendon.

Here is a timeline of journalists who have been attacked or kidnapped in Somalia in the last year.

Oct 19, 2007 - 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. He was freed on December 24.

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 freelance reporter, and Nigel Brennan, a freelance Australian photojournalist are kidnapped in Mogadishu. They are still being held.

Nov 26 - Two western journalists -- British correspondent Colin Freeman and Spanish photographer Jose Cendon -- are kidnapped in the northern province of Puntland.

Jan 4 - Freeman and Cendon are released.

Sources: Reuters/ Reporters Without Borders/ National Union of Somali Journalists.