Anja Popp
Self - Reporter
Unreported World (2000)
Season 8
Unreported World is a foreign affairs programme produced by Quicksilver Media Productions and broadcast by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. Over the course of its twenty-four series, reporters have travelled all over the world in an attempt to uncover stories usually ignored by the world media.
Released Sept. 8, 2000
Episode 25 min
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Genres: Documentary, News
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Network: Channel 4
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S8E1 - Haiti: Showdown in Sun City
Sandra Jordan reports on the UN's battle against armed gangs in Cite-Soleil.
April 13, 2007, midnight
S8E2 - Zambia & Congo: China's African Takeover
Aidan Hartley reports on the human cost of the West's demand for goods such as mobile phones and MP3 players.
April 20, 2007, midnight
S8E3 - Ivory Coast: Blood and Chocolate
Evan Williams reports on the conflict over cocoa, which has claimed hundreds of lives and forced thousands of people into refugee camps.
April 27, 2007, midnight
S8E4 - Boliva: Anarchy in the Andes
Hamida Ghafour finds that President Evo Morales's policy of land reform in favour of the indigenous people has led to confrontation with the land barons.
May 5, 2007, midnight
S8E5 - Chongqing: Invisible City (aka Future City)
Ramita Navai witnesses the rapid development of this Chinese city, and finds that the rights of workers and citizens are being compromised.
May 11, 2007, midnight
S8E6 - Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Reign of Terror
Evan Williams investigates the claim that the Mugabe government is using the supply of Aids drugs and food to influence upcoming elections.
May 18, 2007, midnight
S8E7 - Kosovo: State of Denial
Sam Kiley evaluates the prospects for peace between the Albanian and Serb populations as Kosovo plans for independence.
May 25, 2007, midnight
S8E8 - East Timor: Birth of a Nation
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy reports that eight years after independence, elements of the group that spent years fighting the Indonesian army are now threatening the democratic regime.
June 1, 2007, midnight
S8E9 - Israel's Wild West
Sandra Jordan sees the Israeli government stand by as West Bank settlers consolidate their power.
June 8, 2007, midnight
S8E10 - Mongolia: Ninja Nation (aka On the Trail of the Ninjas)
Aidan Hartley investigates the human and environmental cost of the biggest gold rush of modern times.
June 15, 2006, midnight
S8E11 - Jamaica: Guns, Votes and Money
Evan Williams investigates allegations that political parties are fuelling Kingston's shockingly high murder rate by arming and funding violent gangs in return for votes.
Sept. 14, 2007, midnight
S8E12 - India's Broken People
Ramita Navai reports on the plight of India's dalits (literally "broken people") - the 170 million "untouchables" at the bottom of a deeply ingrained caste system.
Sept. 21, 2007, midnight
S8E13 - South Africa: Children of the Lost Generation
Sam Kiley reports from Cape Flats, an impoverished township outside Cape Town, which is now in the grip of a crystal methamphetamine drug epidemic.
Sept. 21, 2007, midnight
S8E14 - Guinea-Bissau: Cocaine Country
Kate Seelye finds out how Colombian drugs traffickers have turned one of the world's poorest countries into the main transit point for hundreds of tons of cocaine smuggled into Europe every year.
Oct. 5, 2007, midnight
S8E15 - Honduras: The War on Children
Jenny Kleeman travels to Honduras, where a war has broken out between adults and children, with police death squads allegedly killing children like vermin.
Oct. 12, 2007, midnight
S8E16 - China's Olympic Lie
Aidan Hartley discovers that as Beijing is being remodelled into a shiny new Olympic city, up to 1.5 million people have been forcibly evicted from their homes.
Oct. 19, 2007, midnight
S8E17 - Iraq: The Battle for Oil
Evan Williams finds that while ethnic violence is fuelling a break up of the country, the Kurds in Northern Iraq are quietly consolidating their hold over 40% of Iraq's oil reserves.
Oct. 26, 2007, midnight
S8E18 - Colombia: Cocaine City
Hamida Ghafour travels to Buenaventura, at the centre of the Colombian cocaine trade, controlled by private armies working for the cartels who make millions of dollars shipping their drugs to America.
Nov. 2, 2007, midnight
S8E19 - Sri Lanka: Killing for Peace
Sandra Jordan travels to Sri Lanka and discovers that a new and sinister phase in the country's 30-year civil war is taking a grim toll on civilians.
S8E20 - Congo: Children of the Genocide
Sam Kiley reveals that extremist Hutu groups behind the murder of a million people in less than 100 days in Rwanda now hold bloody control over an area the size of Belgium.
Network: Channel 4
Episode Runtime: 25 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: Sept. 8, 2000
Last Air Date: Nov. 21, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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