CAR Crisis Set To Get Worse And How We Tell The Story

From empty sky Tue Feb 11 2014, 12:03:00

I'm just going to leave these here, side-by-side, and see if anyone else feels that same niggling uneasiness with the way some media outlets are slanting this story:

BBC

Aid organisations have warned that the continued exodus ofMuslims from the Central African Republic (CAR) could lead to a catastrophic market collapse.Violence between the Christian majority and Muslims has torn the country apart since a coup last year. Tens of thousands of Muslims have already fled the country to neighbouring Cameroon and Chad.

Meat is already scarce because cattle herders have fled into the bush and, when available, it is twice as expensive as it was, says the BBC's West Africa correspondent Thomas Fessy.

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