Not the headline

03 Apr 2006

We aren’t hearing this every day, it’s not making lead headlines. It’s buried amongst other stories.

More than 200,000 people died in the [Boxing Day] tsunami but that toll will be dwarfed by the disaster that is about to engulf Africa.

However, unlike the tsunami it will not be a single, photogenic disaster to lure the world’s media. The arid lands will wreak a slower carnage.

So far, its victims are attracting a tiny fraction of the charity. And yet, unlike the tsunami, this disaster came with plenty of warning.

But it got published. Listen…