Somalia - trouble at the Horn of Africa (3 docus, 2005-2008)

Somalia, a wartorn country on the East Coast (Horn) of Africa has been a
trouble spot for decades now. When US forces suffered humiliation in the
infamous Blackhawk Down incident they where soon withdrawn and the country
increasingly regarded as a no-go-area even by humanitarian organisations.

These 3 documentaries from the British 'Channel 4' paint a vivid and at
times very disturbingly graphic image of the civil strife.

Apart from the almost usual fighting between the local warlords a new force
has risen, the Union of Islamic Courts, to compete in the struggle for power.
After an invasion by Ethiopian forces in 2006 warlords once again reign in
the Somali capital Mogadishu. Countries like Britain are paying to maintain
their rule even though reports speak of torture and holding to ransom by
government officials.

Kenya-born Aidan Hartley explores the situation in Mogadishu:

1. AL-QAEDA'S NEW HAVEN (2005, 25 minutes)
2. HEARTS, MINDS & HOLY WAR (2006, 25 minutes)
3. WARLORDS NEXT DOOR? (2008, 48 minutes)