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The American media is weak in regards to covering Africa..

not only the american media. European media isn´t paying africa very much attention too.
but to be fair i guess there are not much people left here who are really interessted in the “relative normal african” daily behavior (it looks like killing, raping..... is the usual activity for many people of this continent). very sad
to say but africa is a lost cause *at least in my personal impression* . i can see no end in sight. it looks like just the moment they stop the killing in one country they start killing each other in the next one or two countries. (then wait 5 years and it will start again in the first country).

You are correct.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/default.stm I think this does show the BBC makes a good effort; partly because they pursue the news (Worldwide service of the BBC which I listened to on shortwave as a kid) in an objective fashion and the secondary reason is that a lot of those places are former territories, colonies and such. For the English language at least, they are the place to go, again, imho. And then, after that, the BBC seems to translate into a lot of languages. The BBC seems to give a lot of coverage to the former Rhodesia present Zimbabwe and when that Mugabe fellow would not give up power after being defeated in an election from what I believe, in the American media one would have to seek the story out but with the “Beeb” it was the front page story. The UK is so intertwined with it’s former territories that the Mumbai attacks coverage almost seems like they are covering a story in their own land.

It proves the point though that a large part of the media ignore the African situation.

A Cholera epidemic killing up to 360 people really is a big deal happening in Zimbabwe right now but the BBC is one of the few places to report this. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7752170.stm This would be a real big deal if this happened to a Western nation.

I know there is some African news agency as well and the Nation media out of Kenya for Kenyan news are somewhat adequate.