Approximately 132 million people were threatened 2018 of crises and disasters. Not every suffering made headlines. The Care Organisation has investigated which crisis the least attention in the media.
Hurricane Florence dominated in the autumn of the headlines – but who remembers Typhoon Yutu in the Western Pacific?
Floods, drought, Hunger, violence, displacement: in the past year were again countless countries the scene of natural disasters or man-made crises. While the civil war in Yemen, the supply crisis in Venezuela and the forest fires dominated in California again and again in the international headlines, was played out in other disasters of a similar or larger scale away from the public perception.
Reason for this is difficult access for the media to specific crisis areas as well as dwindling Budgets of editorial offices, which “constituted a real challenge for foreign reporting,” to be, among other things, says the study, “Suffering in Silence” of the non-governmental organization Care International. The study presents the humanitarian crises, the 2018 “received the least media coverage”.
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The organization has evaluated, in collaboration with the media monitoring service Meltwater and more than a Million Online articles in English, German and French, which were published between the beginning of January and the end of November. Specifically, it was examined how often crises, of which at least a Million people were affected, were mentioned in Online media. TV and radio contributions, or for Social Media platforms and produced content were not taken into account. In spite of the limitation with respect to the languages investigated, and Sends the results showed “a clear trend”, according to the authors of the study.
We present the five crises that are beyond 2018, according to Care the least, it was reported.
Haiti
Burning cars, road barricades, deaths, The violent anti-government protests that have brought Haiti last again in the focus of world attention. Significantly less attention to a food crisis, by contrast, was 2018 in the country, which is partly due to a delayed harvest in the Wake of a drought at the beginning of the year.
Also in 2018, it came to be in Haiti again and again to violent protests against rising gasoline prices
In the world hunger index 2018, the Caribbean state that is frequently struck by natural disasters and massive foreign aid payments and is, a took a seat 113 of 119 countries. The politically unstable country recorded the “highest hunger level in the Western hemisphere,” it says in the by Welthungerhilfe, and Concern Worldwide published report. The food situation was “very serious”. The Initiative Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) fell, between October 2018 and February 2019, more than 386,000 inhabitants Haitians in the food category of “emergency”. According to the world food programme, half of the Haitian population is undernourished.
In the media, the drama has not been shown to the development, according to Care. “During the severe earthquake in Haiti in 2010 made around the world headlines, the food crisis in 2018 in the Caribbean state, in international news,” is to be read in the study. Only 503 of the Online article would have taken up the issue.
Ethiopia
Also, the multi-ethnic state on the Horn of Africa was affected in 2018 of a food crisis. In spite of rapid economic growth, more than 80 percent of the population in Ethiopia from agricultural work – life as a source of income, which is always compromised by drought.
Last year, rain fell after two drought years in a row, although again, in many regions, however, enough. In other Parts of the country Crops were destroyed again by Floods. According to the government, around eight million people were in urgent need of food aid dependent. 3.5 million people were severely malnourished according to the United Nations acute “moderate” 350.000″”.
In the list of 2018 at least in the media-publicized crises in Ethiopia is represented twice. According to the Care study, only 986 dealt Online article with the Hunger in the country. Also about the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of people have been reported accordingly. Between April and July data, about one Million people have been forced to leave the UN because of ethnically-motivated violence in the regions of Gedeo and West Guji their home. So that more people fled to Ethiopia to 2018 within the country’s borders before the conflict than in any other country in the world.
Madagascar
Several destructive weather African island state made appearances in the past year in the Southeast for Chaos. Madagascar is one of the most climate change affected countries. The climate phenomenon known as El Niño made 2018 the rice, Maize and cassava fields on the island dry up. The tropical storm, Ava, and Eliakim have forced more than 70,000 people to flee. Because due to the bad weather conditions only a little grain could be produced, increased the number of hungry people at risk in the South of the country, according to UN figures, 1.3 million.
Disinfection of public trails in Antananarivo in September 2017 after the death of a plague-stricken
In addition, measles-torn again – and pest outbreaks, the country from the East coast of Mozambique, after 2017 for a pulmonary and bubonic plague epidemic more than 200 death victims. In the capital, Antananarivo health organization (WHO) were counted, according to the world until the end of December 2018, 6500 measles cases. The reason for the outbreak, especially the low immunization coverage: Only 58 percent of the population are vaccinated against the disease. It was reported about the crises in Madagascar, according to the Care study is rather rare.
Democratic Republic Of The Congo
Also the developments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo found, therefore, in 2018 in the Online reporting little attention. A “vicious circle of violence, disease and malnutrition reigns in the Central African country, according to Care”. The balance sheet of the previous year: 12.8 million at risk of Hunger people, 4.3 million malnourished children, 500 new Ebola cases, of which, according to WHO 280 to death, and almost 765.000 people from the violence of the militias fight, especially in the Eastern provinces in neighbouring countries fled.
Of the ongoing conflict is also an above average number of minors are concerned: According to a recent study by the children’s rights organization Save the Children and the Institute for peace research in Oslo (PRIO) is one of the Congo to the countries in which children suffer the most from armed conflicts.
Office of an aid organization in the province of North Kivu, which uses, among other things, against gender-based violence
Also the use of sexual violence against women as a weapon of war does not tear in the Congo. Overall, the United Nations, more than 200,000 rape victims in the former Belgian colony. The organization Doctors without borders (MSF) treated from may 2017 to September of last year, 2600 victims of sexual violence in the city of Kananga. 80 percent of them have indicated to be of armed men and raped. “These Figures are an indication of the high level of Violence this year,” said Karel Janssens, MSF country coordinator for the Congo.
In the Wake of the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to the gynecologist Denis Mukwege, the sexual violence in the Congo was discussed more in the media. Overall, the problems in the country, according to Care but the least-publicized crises of the year.
Philippines
14. September 2018 looked to the world-banned on the East coast of the United States, where the center of hurricane Florence in North Carolina met on the continent. At the same time a much stronger storm moved in almost 14,000 kilometres on the Philippine island of Luzon. With 200 miles an hour, the strongest tropical eddy met the storm of the year early in the Morning of the 15th. September on the country. Although the destruction affected more than 3.8 million people, and in the case of the disaster, 82 people and 130 injured, were killed, according to Care about Mangkhut relatively little is known.
Salvage work in the Philippine province of Benguet after Typhoon Mangkhut-triggered landslide
Only a month later, the Typhoon devastated Yutu many of Mangkhut destroyed communities that had already begun with the reconstruction.
Overall, the Philippines are one of the most natural disaster-prone countries in Asia. Around 20 tropical storms hit every year on the island state in the Western Pacific. According to the world Bank, the storms are calling for an average of 1,000 people a year. In addition, the country is exposed to the outbreaks in a high degree of geological hazards such as earthquakes and volcanoes, said in a press release. Nevertheless, Mangkhut and Yutu, according to Care to the invisible crises of the year 2018.