Amanda Lindhout

Quick Facts

Full Name	Amanda Lindhout
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jun 12, 1981(1981-06-12)
Age	43
Birthplace	Red Deer
Country	Canada
Horoscope	Gemini

Amanda Lindhout Biography

Amanda Lindhout is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on June 12, 1981 in Red Deer, Canada. Lindhout was born in 1981 in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. After her parents separated, Lindhout lived in Sylvan Lake, Alberta. She and her two brothers (Mark and Nathaniel) were raised by their mother, Lorinda, with Amanda spending much of her youth reading National Geographic Magazine. Lindhout’s father had chronic health problems, and depended on disability payments. Her mother held a minimum-wage job. Lindhout had early aspirations to become a model and did some brief modelling work. She also considered enrolling in a beautician’s school.

On August 23, 2008, two days after having arrived in Mogadishu, Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan, a 37-year-old freelance Australian photojournalist from Brisbane, were kidnapped along with their Somali translator, Abdifatah Mohammed Elmi, their driver, Mahad Isse, and a driver from the Shamo Hotel, Marwali. They were on their way to conduct interviews at an internally displaced person (IDP) camp when they were stopped by gunmen. The abductors were teenage insurgents from the Hizbul Islam fundamentalist group. The two were kidnapped in lieu of two more experienced journalists (one of whom was National Geographic Magazine reporter Robert Draper), who had that morning beefed up their security before leaving to examine a refugee camp. Because of this move, Lindhout and Brennan were kidnapped instead. While in captivity, Lindhout was separated from Brennan and subsequently raped and tortured repeatedly.

On June 10, 2009, CTV News received a phone call from a tearful Lindhout who seemed to be reading a statement: “My name is Amanda Lindhout and I am a Canadian citizen and I’ve been held hostage by gunmen in Somalia for nearly 10 months. I’m in a desperate situation. I’m being kept in a dark, windowless, room in chains without any clean drinking water and little or no food. I’ve been very sick for months without any medicine…. I love my country and want to live to see it again. Without food or medicine, I will die here.”

Elmi and the two drivers were released on January 15, 2009. The kidnappers later lowered the ransom demand to $1 million.

On September 17, Al Jazeera featured footage of Lindhout and Brennan in captivity surrounded by gunmen. On October 13, 2008, the kidnappers demanded a ransom of US$2.5 million by October 28. On February 23, 2009, the Canadian Association of Journalists urged Prime Minister Stephen Harper to help secure the release of Lindhout and Khadija Abdul Qahaar, a Canadian woman who was kidnapped in November.

Amanda Lindhout Net Worth

Amanda Lindhout is one of the richest Journalist from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Amanda Lindhout 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Amanda Lindhout (born June 12, 1981) is a Canadian humanitarian, public speaker and journalist. On August 23, 2008, she and members of her entourage were kidnapped by Islamist insurgents in southern Somalia. She was released 15 months later on November 25, 2009, and has since embarked on a philanthropic career. In 2013, she released the book, A House in the Sky: A Memoir, in which she recounts her early life, travels as a young adult, and hostage experience. In 2014, the book was optioned to become a major motion picture by Megan Ellison, with Rooney Mara playing the role of Lindhout.

At the age of 24, Lindhout quit her job as a cocktail waitress to become a journalist. She used her salary from the bar where she worked to finance reporting trips to various conflict zones around the world. Lindhout began her new journalism career in Afghanistan, arriving in the capital Kabul in May

2007. She later moved on to an assignment in Baghdad, Iraq in January 2008, where she worked on a freelance basis for Iran’s state television Press TV. This led some Canadian reporters to criticize her, due to Press TV’s reputation for producing state propaganda. While in Iraq, reports indicated that Lindhout had been kidnapped in Sadr City. She was said to have been released several hours later, after paying a ransom to her abductors. However, Lindhout in her book denied having been kidnapped in Iraq. She wrote that she was instead taken to the Sadr Party Headquarters and questioned about her political affiliations, and that she was able to call an Iraqi friend who ensured they were released within the hour.

On November 25, 2009, after 460 days as a hostage, Lindhout and Brennan were released following a ransom payment made by their families through a private firm that specializes in kidnappings and ransom payments. She was hospitalized in Nairobi for two weeks and treated for acute malnourishment. Following her release, Lindhout said she found the coverage of her hostage experience to be sensational. In September 2013, Tina Brown of the Daily Beast was accused of falsely printing stories about Lindhout during her captivity, including an incorrect story about an alleged Lindhout pregnancy that never took place. A resulting retraction was printed by National Public Radio in response to Brown’s comments.

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Who is Amanda Lindhout Dating?

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On August 4, 2011, Lindhout travelled back to Somalia for the first time since her captivity. Leading a large convoy carrying food aid for 14,000 people in the southern Somalia town of Dobley, she was welcomed by Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government. Lindhout described the trip as also “an opportunity for me to look at that fear and maybe let it go – this fear that I have been carrying around with me for some time”. Her Convoys For Hope project continued to provide relief and expects to assist 300,000 more people during the drought.

Facts & Trivia

Amanda Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Amanda Lindhout celebrates birthday on June 12 of every year.

In response to the 2011 drought in East Africa, the GEF put into motion its Convoy for Hope program. The initiative received a US$1 million donation from the Chobani Yoghurt company. As part of the GEF, teachers with the Memorial Composite also raised funds to sponsor the Sankaroos women’s basketball team of Abaarso School in Somalia, and a group of high school students in Alberta raised over $23,000 to support the GEF’s educational work.

Who paid the ransom for Amanda Lindhout?

Allan Markin paid roughly $750K to help free her A Calgary businessman and philanthropist paid roughly $750,000 to help free kidnapped journalist Amanda Lindhout in Somalia. Allan Markin, a co-owner of the Calgary Flames, didn’t know Lindhout when she was taken hostage in 2008.

What happened to Amanda Lindhout?

She said her 15 months in captivity left her suicidal, struggling with intense feelings of hopelessness and anxiety. It took her years to find a suitable therapist to help her cope with her symptoms of severe anxiety and anti-social behaviour. She has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Did Amanda Lindhout have a baby?

Lindhout denied rumors that she gave birth to a child while she was being held. “ I absolutely did not have a child in captivity or give birth while I was there ,” Lindhout said. “It’s unfortunate that these sort of tabloid headlines continue to circulate even all of these years later. Absolutely, that’s not true.”

What happened to Nigel who was kidnapped in Somalia with Amanda?

Nigel Brennan (born 18 May 1972) is an Australian photojournalist and author. In 2008, Islamist insurgents in southern Somalia kidnapped him and Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout. He was released 15 months later after a ransom payment was given to his captors.

How long was Amanda Lindhout in captivity?

Lindhout was working as freelance journalist in Mogadishu when she was kidnapped by a group of young Somali men. They held her captive for 460 days , during which time they raped, assaulted and tortured her.