Unreported World

UNREPORTED WORLD, the critically acclaimed Channel 4 foreign affairs strand, returns for a new ten-part series.

SOMALIA: HEARTS, MINDS & HOLY WAR
Friday 15 December 2006 7.35pm

Unreported World travels to Mogadishu. Robin Barnwell and Aidan Hartley provide an eye-opening account of the most successful Islamic revolution to happen in the world since 9/11, and the setting up of a new Taliban-style state which threatens to export war to the entire horn of Africa. More

NIGERIA: FIRE IN THE DELTA Unreported World reported from one of Nigeria's most unstable regions. It's home to one of the richest oil fields in the world, but its people are living in extreme poverty and a polluted environment, caught in the crossfire between armed gangs sabotaging the oil production and harsh reprisals from security forces. Reporter Matt McAllester and director Tim Hetherington investigate. More

WEST PAPUA: RAINFOREST WARRIORS Unreported World travelled to one of the remotest places on earth, where journalists are forbidden to work and usually arrested when they arrive, and where a bloody conflict between government forces and locals is rarely glimpsed by the outside world. More

SOUTH AFRICA: THE NEW APARTHEID The series began in South Africa where a huge rise in illegal immigration from Zimbabwe and other African states is behind an increase in racism and xenophobic violence. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy journeys from the Zimbabwean border to one of Johannesburg's most dangerous quarters to investigate. More