Médecins San Frontières, aka Doctors Without Borders, has released a list of the Top Ten underreported humanitarian stories. They are:
1. Tens of thousands seek refuge in Chad from wars in Sudan and Central African Republic.
2. Ongoing oppression of civilians, war and dislocation in Chechnya.
3. Tenth year of civil war in Burundi lowers life expectancy to 40, causes massive dislocation.
4. Three million displaced in Columbia, infrastructure destroyed, violence & disease rampant, 'drug war' ruins economy.
5. Daily terror and disease in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo pushes 20-year death toll past three million.
6. Annual death toll from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa reaches two million because $1 treatment per patient is too expensive.
7. Twelve years of violence, displacement, flooding and drought make Somalia the world's most destitute country.
8. Millions of refugees fleeing starvation and terror in North Korea struggle in fear and deprivation in hostile China.
9. 'Free' trade agreements deprive millions of AIDS victims in Southern Africa and elsewhere of affordable treatment.
10. War, displacement and lack of medical care produces massive malnutrition in Ivory Coast and Liberia.
1. Tens of thousands seek refuge in Chad from wars in Sudan and Central African Republic.
2. Ongoing oppression of civilians, war and dislocation in Chechnya.
3. Tenth year of civil war in Burundi lowers life expectancy to 40, causes massive dislocation.
4. Three million displaced in Columbia, infrastructure destroyed, violence & disease rampant, 'drug war' ruins economy.
5. Daily terror and disease in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo pushes 20-year death toll past three million.
6. Annual death toll from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa reaches two million because $1 treatment per patient is too expensive.
7. Twelve years of violence, displacement, flooding and drought make Somalia the world's most destitute country.
8. Millions of refugees fleeing starvation and terror in North Korea struggle in fear and deprivation in hostile China.
9. 'Free' trade agreements deprive millions of AIDS victims in Southern Africa and elsewhere of affordable treatment.
10. War, displacement and lack of medical care produces massive malnutrition in Ivory Coast and Liberia.