Eye Investigations Season 2, Episode 9: Sickle Cell: The Enemy Within

1

Sex for Work: The True Cost of Our Tea

BBC investigation reveals the secrets behind some of the world's biggest tea companies.

60 min

2

The Pig Butchering Romance Scam

Investigation into a highly sophisticated scam involving criminal gangs, modern-day slavery and victims around the world who have lost millions of dollars.

47 min

3

Uganda's Stolen Innocence

Africa Eye investigates a rise in child sexual abuse and incest in northern Uganda.

60 min

4

FGM: For the Love of Fatmata

Africa Eye investigates cases of FGM in Sierra Leone.

60 min

5

Kito: Blackmailing LGBT Nigeria

Africa Eye investigates how members of the LGBT community in Nigeria are targeted by criminal gangs who pose as potential dates on popular apps.

27 min

6

Catching a Pervert

BBC Eye investigates websites selling thousands of videos of men sexually assaulting women on trains, buses and other crowded public places across East Asia.

52 min

7

The Monkey Haters

The story of a disturbing online community, the internet sleuths that hunted down the perpetrators and the race to save baby monkey Mini.

52 min

8

Syria: Addicted to Captagon

How Syria's military elite and its fragile wartime economy got hooked on amphetamines.

52 min

9

Sickle Cell: The Enemy Within

Lea has become a beacon of hope for sickle cell sufferers across Africa, battling the stigmas surrounding the disease and the authorities who fail to provide adequate care.

28 min

10

The Night They Came for Our Children

Africa Eye investigates a leading anti-slavery charity and their West African operation.

60 min

11

Blood Brothers: The pro-Russian Serbians

With unprecedented access, BBC Eye explores the world of pro-Russian ultra-nationalists in Serbia, which has long been torn between East and West.

26 min

12

Betrayed: Elderly Care Exposed

With life expectancy increasing, many African families are turning to care homes for help. Are the elderly getting the care they need?

27 min

13

Fear and Loathing in South Africa

BBC Africa Eye investigates the rise of xenophobia in South Africa and the violent targeting of migrants. Reported by Ayanda Charlie.

52 min

14

The Trap: India’s Deadliest Scam

Your phone is private. Or is it? A BBC investigation exposes the blackmail scam causing misery in India.

44 min

15

Predators on the Pitch

Africa Eye's Khadidiatou Cissé, travels to Gabon to investigate one of the biggest sexual abuse scandals in the history of football.

28 min

16

Lady of the Hills: The Thai Wife Killing

Nearly twenty years ago the half-naked body of a Thai woman was found by walkers in a remote part of the Yorkshire Dales in England. The autopsy proved inconclusive.

23 min

17

Taught to Fear

Corporal punishment in Kenyan schools has been banned for over twenty years. Yet teachers are beating their students on a daily basis and the consequences can be fatal. BBC Africa Eye’s Tom Odula goes on a journey to investigate the extent of the problem and what can be done to address it.

28 min

18

What Happened to the Baby Stealers?

BBC Africa Eye revisits Nairobi to find out what impact the broadcast of the 2020 investigation 'The Baby Stealers' had in Kenya's fight against child trafficking.

28 min

19

Gaza Diaries

Five people from Gaza document their struggle to survive the war, using their phones to record stories of loss and resilience in a worsening humanitarian crisis.

22 min

20

Ukraine's Draft Dodgers

Thousands of Ukrainian men have joined the call to fight for their country since Russia's invasion. But what of those who decided military service was not for them?

23 min

21

Breaking the Silence: Abortion Rights in Kenya

An estimated seven women die every day from unsafe abortions in Kenya. BBC Africa Eye investigates the battle for abortion rights in a country where unregulated terminations are a leading cause of maternal deaths, claiming the lives of over 2000 women each year.

45 min

22

Breathless

How the hidden toxic air pollution of the oil giants is spreading hundreds of kilometres, putting the health of millions of people at risk in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Iran and Iraq.

28 min