Congo: 4 Million Dead - No One Watching

“Most of us in the international community have seen it as an incomprehensible amount of parallel conflicts, too many parties, too much misery, you couldn't really find out what was happening. At the same time, the international media has covered this on average very badly.... one non-governmental organisation found out that there was six minutes of network coverage in the United States last year on DRC. I hope this is all in the past.”

Jan Egeland, U.N. emergency relief coordinator.

“UN launches Congo aid plan for ‘forgotten’ crisis,” Reuters, 2/13/06.