With few exceptions (some of the correspondents covering apartheid South Africa — when the nature of the ‘conflict’ was obvious — and more recently the writing of its West Africa Bureau Chief, Howard French), the New York Times‘ Africa coverage has noticeably deteriorated. Case in point is the reporting that accompany the political violence in [...]
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The New York Times’ tribal atavism
Posted in H-Africa, Howard French, Jeffrey Gettleman, Jomo Kenyatta, New York Times on January 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times does right by the Congo (for now)
Posted in Howard French, Joseph Kabila, Laurent Kabila, Mobuto Sese Seko, Rwanda on December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This morning the New York Times (on its front page) finally pays attention to that other war in Africa: in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The paper also corrects some of its own misrepresentations of that complex war. Since 1996 more than four million people have died ‘mainly of disease and hunger’ related to [...]
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