Western media: Stop ignoring the Central African Republic crisis

From Columbia Journalism Review Mon Oct 13 2014, 11:50:00

By Jared Malsin With gunfire and mob attacks in the streets of the capital, the Central African Republic is teetering again on the edge of mass violence. Nine people killed were killed in two days, including a UN peacekeeper from Pakistan and a Muslim civilian whose dead body was decapitated and burned by an angry mob in the capital, Bangui. But world's media...

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