(Xinhua) -- Two foreign journalists kidnapped in Somalia last year have been released, according to agencies' reports on Wednesday.

The reports said there were one Canadian and one Australian. They were in a hotel in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.

The two were kidnapped in August last year with their Somali driver and guards in the southwest of Mogadishu.

No further details about the release process was available now.

The development came one month after three aid workers who had been held since July were released by gunmen in the Horn of Africa country. ?

The three were kidnapped in July in the north of Kenya and taken to Somalia across the border. They were taken to a small plane on Saturday morning in the southwestern Somali town of Luq.

Somalia has been without a strong central government since the toppling of former ruler Mohamed Siyad Barre in 1991.