drawing thousands of people to a facility that had been abandoned for years and later became a base for military — and even extremists — amid civil war. Somali authorities have spent years ...

We hear about the bravery of a pilot in the Somali civil war and the East German workers who protested Soviet rule, plus why an astronaut packed his golf clubs in 1971. Show more Max Pearson ...

When the Somali civil war and subsequent government collapse took place in 1991, these men and women went from being star players at the height of their careers to refugees in an instant.