24 November 2006

Crisis! What crisis?

I just noticed that the Reuter AlertNet homepage has a neat little feature. Under "Emergencies" there is a little menu box from which you can select from one hundred and two global crises; everything from "Aceh peace" to "Zimbabwe hunger". There is even one I was completely unaware of Chikungunya . It is it turns out a mosquito borne virus).

102. That's depressing and I'm sure they've missed a few as well.

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