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Somalia's slide into chaos

By Lindsey Hilsum

Updated on 03 December 2008

Channel 4 News's Somalia cameraman, Abdullahi Farah Duguf's, brutal and disturbing account of Somalia's descent into anarchy.

Ethiopia's American-backed invasion two years ago sparked an Islamic insurgency and Somalia plumbed depths of violence, humanitarian conditions, and fear most there thought they would never see.

This week Ethiopia announced it was withdrawing its troops from Somalia by the end of the year.

Somalia is plagued by an impending famine and a civil war that has lasted almost two decades.

The country has been without a functioning government since 1991.

Farah lived through the last two years and filmed most of the worst moments of his and his family's life in Mogadishu.

Lindsey Hilsum tells his story.

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