World

'forgotten' crises

by clorenz1 | January 9, 2007 at 10:38 am

1179 views | 2 Recommendations | 2 comments

While Iraq grabs the headlines in the US, England, and Canada there are many stories going untold across the planet. Médecins Sans Frontières has put out a list of forgotten crises around the world.

Are you in these areas? Can you help to contextualize this list with stories, video or photographs which help to give our community a better look into this important article?

Have a look at the slideshow

The staggering toll taken by tuberculosis and malnutrition as well as the devastation caused by wars in Central African Republic and Sri Lanka are among the top 10 under-reported humanitarian stories of 2006, according to medical aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières.

The 10 countries and contexts highlighted by MSF accounted for just 7.2 minutes of airtime of the 14,512 minutes on the three major U.S. television networks' nightly newscasts for 2006, as measured by the Tyndall Report, an online media tracking journal.

Below is a run-down of the year's most forgotten crises as judged by MSF. The stats are from MSF and AlertNet's crisis profiles.