Imprisoned in a refugee camp for 17 years

Please visit http://www.simonreeve.co.uk for more information. Simon Reeve meets people who have lived in a refugee camp on the border between Somalia and Kenya for nearly two decades while making his BBC TV series Equator. In Equator, Simon followed the equator through troubled areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America, including Colombia and the Congo.
The Radio Times said Equator was an extraordinary journeyrevelatorythrilling and thought-provokinghits us with jaw-dropping factseye-openingdelivers a string of revealing snapshots. The Sunday Times said: You cannot expect much more from a documentary, frankly. And the Daily Mail said it was: Unmissablespectacular and thought-provoking.
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Simon Reeve is a bestselling author and broadcaster. In recent years hes travelled to scores of countries around the world for a series of BBC television documentaries.
The 2008 BBC TV series Tropic of Capricorn took Simon around the line marking the southern border of the tropics. His accompanying book, also called Tropic of Capricorn, is published by BBC Books.
In his Places That Dont Exist series Simon travelled to a group of unrecognised nations countries so obscure they dont officially exist, including Somaliland, South Ossetia, Transdniestria and Nagorno-Karabakh.
And in the series Meet the Stans, Simon visited the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Simons book The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism, which warned of a new age of apocalyptic terrorism, was the first in the world on bin Laden and al Qaeda. Originally published in 1998 it has been a New York Times bestseller.
Simon has contributed to other books on organised crime, terrorism and biological warfare. His book One Day in September: the story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, is also an Oscar-winning feature documentary film narrated by the actor Michael Douglas.
Simon has received a One World Broadcasting Trust award for an outstanding contribution to greater world understanding.
You can find out more information on Simons journeys, and see more of Simons films, at his website: http://www.simonreeve.co.uk or at http://www.youtube.com/shootandscribble
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[kumathebulldog]

@pizzapingvin you stupid bastard, its because of people like you that don't understand the situation because never in your life have you been in the place these people are in. how bout you do something about this., FUCK YOU UP THE ASSHOLE you stupid dicK..

[pizzapingvin]

why do these women bring like dozens of kids into this world when even they cannot survive. They cannot all be raped. Man it is difficult to have compassion. They could improve the situation drastically if they just stopped having so many freakin kids. UN do something

[mnandi984]

somalia is a shithole

[ilkacase1984]

fuck uggly kenyan,letts free our somalis to notheast kenya coz thats our land,

[ppitm]

Tell Fatima to come to Lewistan, Maine is she ever can. It's cold as hell but it's friendly and there're Somalis everywhere.