FACTSHEET: MSF top 10 ‘forgotten’ crises
Signs of the Times - Alternative news for Wed, 10 Jan 2007 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.
