So what does Eddie know..?

After my blog yesterday on cricket cheating, Pakistan floods, Niger floods and media story priorities… I have spotted that Eddie Arthur has blogged on vaguely similar lines. It seemed dreadful to me that a sporting scandal could be seen as more important than the lives of millions of people in Pakistan. I was all fired [...]

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Sure we all know about Pakistan…

… the floods, I mean, as well as the alleged cricket cheats, but what about starving Niger! Gordon Brown returned to front-line politics today (31 August 2010), writing in The Independent and making an appeal for Britain to fund food aid to the landlocked African state of Niger where more than half the population face [...]

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West African Floods Reported on BBC

I’ve been wondering when the serious flooding in West Africa would appear on the BBC website – and now in the last few days it has… at least on the Africa news page. UN warns on West Africa floods. Heavy flooding has now affected some 350,000 people across West Africa, killing at least 32 in [...]

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Flooding in Niger

Hot on the heels of my post on Floods in Burkina Faso, came a Facebook post this morning from colleague Sue who used to work in Niger. AGADEZ, 3 September 2009 (IRIN) – Four days of intense rains in Niger’s northern Air Mountains and desert towns at its base have affected 7,000 households, damaged 3,500 [...]

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Flooding in Burkina Faso

Last week, I shared some BBC website news about floods in Burkina Faso on my Facebook profile. The heaviest rains to hit Burkina Faso in decades have killed five people and left 150,000 homeless, officials say. Flooding destroyed thousands of homes in and around the capital, Ouagadougou, triggering officials pleas for international help. I was [...]

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