By Stephen Brown
It just shows what is wrong with our media.
The front pages of most newspapers last week carried a story about a horrific plane crash in the Sudan that cost 100 lives. While this tragedy was certainly newsworthy, hardly a single media outlet has been covering the real story in Africa's largest country that could turn into a human catastrophe for millions of its non-Muslim citizens.
A twenty-year civil war between the Sudan's Arab and Islamic North and Christian and animist African South that ended with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005 is set to explode again. Fighting broke out last month between the North's Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), the armed forces of southern Sudan, in the oil-rich Abyei region, resulting in dozens of deaths. Read more ...
It just shows what is wrong with our media.
The front pages of most newspapers last week carried a story about a horrific plane crash in the Sudan that cost 100 lives. While this tragedy was certainly newsworthy, hardly a single media outlet has been covering the real story in Africa's largest country that could turn into a human catastrophe for millions of its non-Muslim citizens.
A twenty-year civil war between the Sudan's Arab and Islamic North and Christian and animist African South that ended with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005 is set to explode again. Fighting broke out last month between the North's Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), the armed forces of southern Sudan, in the oil-rich Abyei region, resulting in dozens of deaths. Read more ...
Source: FrontPage Magazine
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