For three hours cinematographer Matt Davis and I have been sitting in a hot shipping container which serves as a military official's office in Mogadishu airport. Being here is not optional – we've been told we are not allowed to leave. Three and a half hours earlier we had wrapped up an interview with Somalia's drought envoy, Abdirahman Abdishakur, a senior official who was key to our story about the current hunger crisis.
We were filming a sequence of the envoy's car driving away through a checkpoint when an African Union soldier walked up to Matt and started berating him for filming the checkpoint. Matt tried to explain he was filming the car not the soldiers but the officer wouldn't buy it. He dragged us back to his office and demanded to see the footage.
