Muqdisho, Journey to a Doomed City
Somalia has officially been named the "most failed state of the world" and its capital Mogadishu is classed as the "metropolis of hatred." Almost 20 years of civil war have turned the city into a landscape of ruin and despair. Westerners left years ago, and because the Islamists hunt down every local or foreign reporter, the destiny of Mogadishu has disappeared from public interest. TV reporter Helmar Buechel documents this forgotten apocalypse.