This is a rather god condemnation of how the BBC approaches African coverage. Worth reading.
Here’s an excerpt:

There are African ‘local’ BBC staff working in cities like Abuja in Nigeria and Nairobi, Kenya, who are earning between a seventh and a quarter of what the staffers in London take home each month. Some of these BBC staff live in shanty towns, with no clean water and the minimal living conditions. And yet, when the Beeb sends out a London-based staffer ‘to cover’ for a few weeks or months, they remain on their 25k to 45k job (or a hell of a lot more), with pension rights, with holiday rights, etc etc etc. It is very sad that even the African staff who land a job in London seem all too quick to forget their African ‘brothers and sisters’ in order that they can take advantage of the unfair and unequal system of the Beeb. So you will hear more noise made about the ‘right of staff to get an all-paid-for late night black cab back home’ than you will for the stringers on the continent to get their phone bills (used to carry out their work) paid for or to have any kind of health insurance. The lack of health insurance and healthcare might explain why some former stringers actually died of preventable diseases like malaria. Can you imagine the noise that we’d never hear the end of if John Simpson got malaria – and, God forbid, dropped dead? No. Nor can I. So spare a thought for the stringers who went that way and no one so much as blinked.

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