Congo

Story can be found here. 

I found this story significant for a few reasons. 

Firstly, I consider myself fairly well informed on world events, but I had no idea that anything like this was going on the in the Congo. My TA for my Media and Politics class last year was from Zimbabwe and always complained how little accurate press coverage Africa gets. I guess that this proves her point. 

Secondly, I found the layout of this story pretty awful. I am not a huge fan of Yahoo! news but I use it because I have an Yahoo! email account and it makes it easy to read important headlines. However, they should have used more maps and graphics to make this story less tedious to read. I don't know if I could pick the Congo out on a map of Africa (I have a general idea, but I would probably be wrong) and I know that a lot of Americans don't know their African geography.