Unreported World Season 8

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Season 8

Air date: 2007-04-13

Episodes: 20

Episodes

E1: Haiti: Showdown in Sun City

Sandra Jordan reports on the UN's battle against armed gangs in Cite-Soleil.

Air date: 2007-04-13

E2: 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.

Air date: 2007-04-20

E3: 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.

Air date: 2007-04-27

E4: 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.

Air date: 2007-05-05

E5: 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.

Air date: 2007-05-11

E6: 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.

Air date: 2007-05-18

E7: Kosovo: State of Denial

Sam Kiley evaluates the prospects for peace between the Albanian and Serb populations as Kosovo plans for independence.

Air date: 2007-05-25

E8: 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.

Air date: 2007-06-01

E9: Israel's Wild West

Sandra Jordan sees the Israeli government stand by as West Bank settlers consolidate their power.

Air date: 2007-06-08

E10: 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.

Air date: 2007-06-15

E11: 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.

Air date: 2007-09-14

E12: 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.

Air date: 2007-09-21

E13: 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.

Air date: 2007-09-21

E14: 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.

Air date: 2007-10-05

E15: 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.

Air date: 2007-10-12

E16: 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.

Air date: 2007-10-19

E17: 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.

Air date: 2007-10-26

E18: 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.

Air date: 2007-11-02

E19: 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.

E20: 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.