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samoan62's avatar

I wondered about some of these things myself since as you said one storyline or personality often dominates reporting of African or Middle Eastern regions. It feels impossible to get a feel for what the ground level conditions are for many people in these places or what else is going on.

The lack of coverage of Sudan's war is very frustrating and, like you said, it's so hard to get a feel for what is happening. Compare that to Ukraine coverage which there is an annoyingly large wealth of information on.

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Le Orange's avatar

Thought about this when reading a piece on Tigray, a huge war with catastrophic consequences that couldn’t even break into the mainstream awareness of its occurrence. Despite influential figures from that area heading some key international institutions the lack of media access and coverage doomed it.

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Logan Jones's avatar

For those paywalled outlets you mentioned I just use archive.ph

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