The freed journalists have reached in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, just as they few from the international airport of Aden Adde in Mogadishu on Thursday.

The journalists, Nigel Brennan, an Australian photographer, and Amanda Lindhout, a Canadian freelance reporter were released on Wednesday as their kidnappers took $700,000 as ransom payment according to government officials in Mogadishu.

The Western journalists were kidnapped in August 2008.

Ms. Lindhout told reporters that she was very happy pointing out that she experienced extremely difficult situation as she and her colleague were in under the control of armed Somalis for more than a year.

It is still not clear exactly who the kidnappers were.

Mr. Brennan also said that he had been pistol-whipped and shackled in chains for the past 10 months as he speaking to some of the journalists.

The kidnappers reportedly took the journalists to a checkpoint on Mogadishu's outskirts and handed them over to government soldiers according to Somali officials.

The journalists were then taken to the Sahafi Hotel, which used to be known as safe but which was where two French security agents were kidnapped this year.

Somalia's National Security Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Sanbaloshe, police officer and law maker confirmed to the media the amount of the ransom payment as the two foreign journalists were flying to the neighboring Kenya.

More of the transitional government troops and AMISOM with armored vehicles escorted both journalists to Mogadishu airport and the latest reports say that they freely reached the Kenyan capital Nairobi.