Top ten under-reported stories

Natural disasters like the south Asia tsunami and the war in Iraq dominated international reporting. But in a year that Tyndall said had an unusually high amount of international coverage, only six minutes were devoted to DR Congo and two minutes to Chechnya. The remaining stories highlighted by MSF were not covered at all. The AIDS crisis received 14 minutes of coverage, none of which, however, was devoted to the lack of R&D.


Medecin Sans Frontieres have published a list of the ten least-reported humanitarian crises of 2005. The list includes the health crisis and civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the conflict in Chechnya, the lawlessness and campaign of political genocide occurring in Haiti, and several others.

You can read the entire list here.