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In today’s world, the headlines are The sad truth is that Africa’s wars are
stuck in a loop: Gaza-Israel often relegated to the margins. Take
conflicts, Russia-Ukraine clashes, the Democratic Republic of Congo as
and the endless discussions an example. It is a country that sustains
surrounding global superpowers a decades-long conflict so devastating
and their dynamics. In any that it has claimed over four million
newspaper, you'll find these lives. Yet, the narrative around it is far
stories given top importance more complicated than a simple tale of
everyday. But where is the oppressor versus oppressed because
consistent reporting on the it’s chaotic involving at least twenty
humanitarian catastrophes taking different rebel groups and armies from
place across Africa? How often do neighboring countries. It’s not a war
you hear about the countless lives that fits neatly into a headline, and so it
torn apart in Congo, the relentless struggles to get attention.
violence in Sudan, or the suffering
in the Central African Republic?
Why do these brutal conflicts,
where millions are displaced and
entire communities are
annihilated, barely appear for us?
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