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- Three-part documentary series examining historic child abuse in youth football all across England between the 1970s and the 1990s, and the culture of silence that surrounded it.
- Two friends from one of the world's poorest countries go on a journey to the stage the most ambitious play in the nation's history. It doesn't go as planned.
- Dominic, a courageous missionary working in war-ravaged Sierra Leone, is called home to Canada to arrange his mother's funeral and figure out how to deal with his brilliant yet schizophrenic older sister, Grace
- Under shadows cast by colossal oil refineries, emerging from the desert like chrome cathedrals, SO FOUL A SKY presents a journey through several frontier lands of Venezuela - the world's first petrostate - now shaken by the worst political and humanitarian crisis South America has experienced in the 21st century. While storm clouds gather in the skies, sleepy soldiers patrol the Caribbean Seas, migrants drift through lugubrious border posts between Brazil and Venezuela, and smugglers venture across the hostile Guajira Desert, trafficking the last remaining barrels of embargoed gasoline. All is enveloped by scrambled radio newsreels fired from both sides of the ideological struggle ripping the capital apart. This is a film portraying pirates and pilgrims, orphaned children of a land that they have made their own without planting flags or imposing anthems; anarchic just like the hovering storm clouds threatening to put an end to the limbo all inhabit.
- In this eye-opening film, the award-winning African journalist Sorious Samura reveals how corruption has become normal and accepted in Africa - it is one of the root causes of Africa's many problems. Sadly, most aid money given by the West never reaches those it is meant to help; it gets siphoned off by corrupt governments. This film provides a sober portrait of how modern Africa really works. Samura moves into one of the largest slums in Africa, Kibera in Kenya, to reveal the relentlessness of everyday corruption, where the poor have to bribe just to survive. Bribery is the modus operandi for obtaining basics such as hospital appointments, building their shacks, getting work and staying out of jail. Samura returns home to Sierra Leone to live with a friend and her 10 children. Here widespread corruption led to a brutal and bloody civil war that ended in 2002. The country had the chance to start again but Samura describes how a seven-year aid project, led by the British, has failed because of corruption and a lack of understanding from Western donors. In the slums there is no water or electricity and Sierra Leoneans still have the worst life expectancy on the planet.
- In an unprecedented mission, Sorious Samura set out to understand the real stories of people living on the edge of starvation. He moved into a remote village in Ethiopia far away from the range of the UN and most NGO's. Between August and September Sorious lived in a hut and survived on the same meagre diet as the rest of the villagers. As he arrived in the village Sorious got an unpleasant surprise. The villagers made it clear he was not welcome. 'They think you are the Devil' he is told. In the Ethiopian Orthodox tradition the devil indeed is usually depicted as a very black being, blacker than most villagers. It takes Sorious much persuasion to convince the villagers that he will not eat their babies and hasn't come to rape their wives. Very soon Sorious settles into the routine of the village. He is amazed and exhausted by the hard work he must do to keep up with the villagers as they climb steep slopes to plough and till their fields every day. Despite the weather failing them on so many previous occasions the villagers always have hope that their next harvest will bring the food they so desperately need. Kirkos, Ethiopia There is food aid, but never enough. Sorious is living with a family where the meagre supplies supposed to last for two months have run out in two weeks. Now Mum and Dad, five children and Sorious must survive on a local weed called wild cabbage. A grown man would need to eat a room full of wild cabbage to satisfy a day's nutritional requirement, but the plant, even though it makes the villagers sick, fills stomachs and at least gives the sense of food. Sorious has made friends with the deacons. Young boys who receive religious education but must beg for their school fees and for the food that they eat. Together they travel to other remote villages and eventually to the town of Lalibela to beg or to find work if they can. It is an awful journey, which brings us painfully close to the real lives of the poor. Away from the headline making famine, award-winning filmmaker Sorious Samura discovers that the daily reality for more than 40 million Africans is a diet ranging from nothing to a handful of weeds. In his unique style of filmmaking he questions how we can expect Africa to develop when so many Africans are engaged in a daily struggle to survive.
- Emmy-winning Sierra Leonean journalist Sorious Samura travels to Kenya, to witness how the rise of Chinese business in Africa has changed the balance of power between African governments and the West. "African leaders can now look elsewhere for meaningful economic and political support," says Sorious.
- Central African Republic has one of the most extraordinary legal systems in the world. Every year, the government investigates, prosecutes and imprisons hundreds of people for committing the crime of witchcraft. One judge, however, doesn't believe in magic and does everything in his power to get the cases against the accused witches dismissed.
- On a continent where investigative reporters face intimidation and beatings and where death threats are an occupational hazard, African journalists go undercover to find the wrongdoers and put them under the spotlight. Africa Investigates is a groundbreaking series that exposes corruption and abuse across Africa.
- Sorious Samura lives for four weeks with with refuges from Darfur on the border of Sudan and Chad.
- Part one. Sorious Samura explores the changing face of war, focusing on its impact on the lives of ordinary people. In particular, he looks at the experiences of those on the receiving end of military interventions by American forces in Somalia, Sudan and Afghanistan Part two. In the concluding part of the documentary, Sierra Leone-born film-maker Sorious Samura reports on the large number of conflicts throughout the modern world which are fought with little more than rusty old rifles and, in some cases, bows and arrows. He assesses how state control has slipped in many parts of the world, to be replaced by ancient rivalries often derived from contrasting religious beliefs. Visiting Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan and Somalia, he reveals the truth about war in areas of comparatively limited means.
- Almost one hundred football officials across West Africa and Kenya have been caught on camera accepting cash in a sting operation. It's part of a two-year long undercover investigation by controversial Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas. BBC Africa Eye has had exclusive access to the footage for their latest documentary. In one case a World Cup bound assistant referee from Kenya accepted six hundred dollars from a man posing as an official of a Ghanaian premiership team.
- The BBC's Stacey Dooley embeds with a battalion of Yazidi women headed to the frontline to fight ISIS in Iraq, where they seek to avenge the genocide and sexual slavery of their people.
- In "Exodus" Samura traveled to Nigeria, Mali, The Sahara, Morocco and Spain as he followed African exiles in their attempt to make their way to the 'promised land' of Europe. The film saw Samura meet some of those trying to make the journey and follows their progress, whilst hearing of the hardships compelling them to leave their native lands.
- Former footballers, including Paul Stewart, David White and Andy Woodward, speak out about the sexual abuse they suffered as youth players and how it burdened them during their professional careers.
- How opportunities were missed to stop sexual offenders in youth football decades ago, and why it took so long for the full scale of abuse to emerge.
- The final episode follows the court trials of high profile abusers and asks what justice might look like for the men whose lives have been torn apart.
- An investigation into the persecution that gay people face in Africa.
- In Addicted to Aid, award-winning Sierra Leonean reporter Sorious Samura, a man well-known for asking difficult questions of Africa's leaders, examines these issues. He asks whether we might have got it all wrong, and if we have become distracted by arguments over how much money to give and paid too little attention to where it ends up.
- Somewhere in vast, dense jungles of central Africa, is hidden Joseph Kony, world's most wanted men.
- In "Living with Illegals", award-winning journalist Sorious Samura becomes an illegal immigrant. His journey is epic as he travels from Morocco into Europe through Spain and France, finally crossing the English Channel to Britain.
- The world's wealthy countries often criticise African nations for corruption -- especially that perpetrated by those among the continent's government and business leaders who abuse their positions by looting tens of billions of dollars in national assets or the profits from state-owned enterprises that could otherwise be use to relieve the plight of some of the world's poorest peoples.
- In April 1994, long-standing tensions between Hutus and Tutsis, the two main ethnic groups in the African state of Rwanda, exploded when the plane of Juvenal Habyarimana, the Hutu president, was shot down. A Hutu militia - along with thousands of ordinary Hutus - massacred more than 800,000 Tutsis. But when the exiled Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) returned to the country as many as two million Hutus, fearing reprisals, fled across the border to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) Sixteen years on, many of those Hutus want to return home as part of a reconciliation and repatriation programme sponsored by the UN and the Rwandan government. But what sort of welcome awaits them? Sorious Samura followed some refugees as they returned to Rwanda.
- With exclusive access to President Paul Kagame, Insight TWI's Sorious Samura takes us on a journey through the new Rwanda on the twentieth commemoration of the genocide.
- Sorious Samura takes us to the frontline of the global war against the crippling disease polio, where hopes for a final eradication of the scourge are being undermined by an explosive and deadly new outbreak in Congo-Brazzaville. Polio is on the verge of eradication. Since 1988, years of unprecedented success by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative has seen the number of cases around the world decrease by 99 per, but the goal to guarantee the cessation of all 're-established poliovirus transmissions by the end of 2010' has failed. The final one per cent is proving hard to beat. Strains of the virus linger in parts of the developing world, and localised epidemics can still strike unexpectedly. Ten years ago, Congo-Brazzaville thought it had seen the last of polio but since last October, 220 people have died, and a further 368 people are suffering from paralysis. As a regional emergency response operation battles to contain the crisis, Sorious journeys to its epicentre, the coastal city of Pointe-Noire to meet the most recent victims. What will it take to stamp out polio entirely? With the high risk of further spread, Sorious highlights the desperate need to find a solution if dreams of a polio-free world are to be realised.
- Lifting the lid on Ghana's illusory pot of gold and exposing those duping gold speculators out of millions of dollars.
- What motivates thousands of children to take great risks smuggling themselves across the border into South Africa?
- Last December, an Al Jazeera network investigation examined shocking claims that the government of Kenya has been running secret police death squads, tasked with assassinating suspected terrorists and criminals. At the time the Kenyan government strongly refuted the allegations but reports and rumours in Kenya about extra-judicial killings have continued to proliferate. Ten months on, People and Power asked Mohammed Ali, one of Kenya's top independent investigative journalists, to find out why. In this deeply worrying film, Ali discovers that mysterious killings are indeed continuing amid a culture of apparent impunity, leaving Kenyan security forces open to suspicions that they are unaccountable and seemingly out of control. He discovers that over 1,500 Kenyan citizens have been killed by the police since 2009, and that statistically, Kenyans are currently five times more likely to be shot by a policeman than a criminal. With often little or no investigation by the Kenyan state into the circumstances surrounding these deaths, he finds evidence to suggest that an increasing number of Kenyan police officers may be complicit in what have been described as summary executions of suspects. Even the Kenyan army, seen by most Kenyans as less corrupt and more trustworthy than the police, is now allegedly implicated in the torture and forced disappearance of terror suspects in the country's northeastern region.
- Under apartheid, South Africa's police were notorious for extrajudicial killings and the routine use of torture against political dissidents. Only later did it emerge that these same techniques were being used even when the victims were suspected criminals, rather than enemies of the racist state. On the birth of the Rainbow Nation two decades ago, most people believed that this would quickly become a thing of the past, that a new era of prosperity, justice and social harmony would make such abuses unthinkable. But in the past 20 years, with both prosperity and social equality remaining an unfulfilled dream for many South Africans, violent crime has been on the rise. This in turn has generated an increasingly aggressive response from the police - under intense political pressure to stop muggings, armed robberies, gang warfare and murder on the streets of the country's major cities. The problem is that some of those charged with upholding the law have been breaking it themselves. Elements of South Africa's police now stand accused of being out of control in a way that is dangerously reminiscent of apartheid's darkest days. In this episode of Africa Investigates, veteran South African journalists Stephan Hofstatter and Mzilikazi wa Afrika, from the country's Sunday Times newspaper, examine the activities of one elite police unit and allegations that its members have been responsible for the torture and murder of criminal suspects.
- Many Ugandans have lived through fear over the decades - either because of the actions of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army or from the campaign of an Islamist insurgency known as the ADF. But today Ugandan Muslims face a different anxiety. Over the past two years, unknown assailants have ambushed and killed a dozen of the country's leading Muslim clerics. Others survived and now live in fear. The attacks have occurred across the country, from the capital, Kampala, to border towns like Mbale. The government and police say that ADF insurgents, among others, are responsible for the killings. Other's blame them on an ideological struggle within the Muslim community or a result of a fight over property and money. Many, though, are pointing fingers at Ugandan government security forces themselves, accusing them of using violence and the 'threat of terrorism' to engender reasons for suppressing political opposition. In the middle of all this is a so-called hit list with the names of Muslim clerics who have, apparently, been marked for murder. Over half of those on the list have now been killed and the rest now live under armed protection, but they remain under threat, increasing tensions between the different Muslim denominations, the public and the authorities. Prompted by this story's mysterious claims and counter claims, reporters Sorious Samura and Ivan Okuda and producer Clive Patterson teamed up to find out who is really behind the violence that is dividing a community and the nation and to ask whether state agencies are more involved than they are letting on.
- It is understandable why a desperate childless couple might do anything to have a baby, but those who exploit their unhappiness for profit are not so easy to forgive. In this deeply disturbing episode of Africa Investigates, Ghana's undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas and investigative reporter Rosemary Nwaebuni team up to identify and expose some of those those behind Nigeria's heart-breaking baby trade. It is a scam that exploits couples desperate for a baby and young pregnant single mothers - often stigmatised in a country where abortion is illegal except in the most dire medical emergency. It is also a trade that international NGOs have identified as sinister and out of control. Filming undercover, the team find bogus doctors and clinics offering spurious fertility treatments in return for large amounts of money. In their guise as a childless couple, Anas and Rosemary are falsely diagnosed by one dodgy clinician as being unable to conceive children. When the footage is reviewed by an official from Nigeria's Ministry of Health, he is appalled at the way vulnerable people are being conned. "You should not allow these people access to the public," he says. But worse is to come. The team go on to uncover orphanages and clinics that act as brokers for illegal baby sales, by which naive, greedy or simply desperate young mothers are "persuaded" to hand over their newborn children for cash.
- Every year an unknown number of children - most of them disabled in some way - are murdered in northern Ghana because of the belief that they are in some way possessed by evil spirits set on bringing ill fortune to those around them. The practice is the consequence of ancient traditions and customs and is shaped by poverty and ignorance in remote and often marginalised communities. But it is still infanticide and no less horrifying than the killing of children anywhere. For years NGOs and the Ghanaian authorities have tried advocacy and education in an attempt to eradicate the practice but with only marginal success. Well into the 21st century, Ghana's so-called spirit children are still being killed because they carry the blame for the misfortunes of everyday life. Award-winning Ghanaian investigative reporter Anas Aremeyaw Anas is determined to do something to stop this senseless slaughter. In this shocking and remarkable film for People & Power he sets out to track down and identify some of those responsible and to bring them to justice.
- Two journalists go undercover to delve into the disturbing world of West Africa's quack doctors.
- An undercover investigation into the disturbing theft and black market sale of international food aid in Ghana.
- In this edition of Africa Investigates, reporter Sorious Samura exposes the high level corruption that is stripping his homeland bare.
- Investigating corruption and mysterious deaths at the heart of Mozambique's lucrative ruby mining industry.
- Of all the exports from the West to the developing world, breast cancer is one of the most unpleasant. What was once described as a curse of the rich is now on the march through Africa. Journalist Chika Oduah went to Ghana to investigate.