The Alberta-born journalist is still in captivity in Somalia.

From a CP story on Google News:

The Afghanistan kidnapping of CBC reporter Mellissa Fung, a 28-day ordeal that finally came to an end Saturday, shouldn't be taken as a sign that the Taliban are running rampant and escalating activity against westerners.

In fact, the simple truth of Afghanistan is that the vast majority of kidnappings are crimes of opportunity committed by local thugs and bandits in a desperately poor, lawless and extremely dangerous country. ...

There has been a rash of kidnappings involving journalists and aid workers, mostly by criminal gangs looking to collect ransom money. British journalist Sean Langan was grabbed at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in June and released three months later after a ransom was paid.

Dutch journalist Joanie de Rijke, who was kidnapped by suspected Taliban rebels near Kabul a week ago, was freed Friday.

Afghanistan is far from being the only place where abduction is rampant. Kidnapping has been big business in Colombia for years, and it was in Somalia where Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout, whose whereabouts remain unknown, was kidnapped last August.