BBC World Service - Witness History

Somalia 1991

What was it like living in Mogadishu at the height of Somalia's civil war?

Ugandan dictator Idi Amin took power in 1971, but it ended in disarray in 1979

Queen Victoria died exactly 109 years ago today - we hear from her shocked subjects.

How the father and son regime of the Duvaliers affected the already poor country of Haiti.

How John Logie Baird tried to convince people that TV could work.

Over twenty years ago Soviet troops were fighting in Afghanistan - we hear from veterans.

Two women tell their stories of exile because of the revolution in Iran over 30 years ago.

It's exactly 40 years since the Biafran war of independence from Nigeria ended in failure.

Remembering the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians over 90 years ago.

Yemen is the news because of al-Qaeda, but in the 90s, its civil war made the headlines.