A Canadian woman is one of two journalists abducted near Mogadishu in Somalia by unidentified armed men.
The journalists were on their way to visit a refugee camp on Saturday.
A hotel employee in Mogadishu said the two journalists went to Elasha, about 18 kilometres southwest of Mogadishu.
"They left this morning and their whereabouts are unknown," Ajos Mohamed Nor told The Associated Press.
Reuters said the male was an Australian:
"We heard that unknown gunmen abducted two foreign journalists, a white man and a white woman," Fatuma Ali, a primary school teacher in Elasha, told Reuters by telephone.
Mohamed Ajos, head of security at Mogadishu's Shamo Hotel, said the pair had been staying there.
"They left us this morning to visit internally displaced camps on the outskirts of Mogadishu," he told Reuters.
"Now they are nowhere to be found. They were accompanied by a Somali translator and were to visit parts of Lower Shabelle region. They are believed to have been kidnapped."
Ajos and another source at the hotel said the pair were freelance journalists and named them as Nigel, a 27-year-old Australian, and Amanda, 26, a Canadian. They had no other details.