Africa News Current Events (2)

Angola had promised to send troops to Congo because they had claimed hat Congolese soldiers have raped women, torn down villages, and homes. Angola had last been seen in a conflict with Congo during the 1998-2003, which left 3 to 4 million people dead. Attacks were followed by nighttime with guns near the capital of Goma. It had represented one of the most intense fighting. Both sides have accused the other of violating the ceasefire, that both the U.N. and democratic Republic of Congo officials say they have killed hundreds of people. Also, Congolese troops began looting the village of Kanyabayonga, about 60 miles north of Goma, on a late Monday. They were shooting in the air, and houses. Fighting then broke out in Congo at the end of August over 1994. 250,000 people have been displaced by the conflict. There were about 17,000 U.N. troops in Congo. On Tuesday, U.N. Secretary called for an immediate ceasefire, saying as many as 100,000 refugees north of Goma have been cut off from relief workers. He has requested the U.N. Security Council to authorize an additional 3,000 troops to help control the fighting.
This is newsworthy because it involves conflict. there had been too much that they had to add additinal troops and it is important to the local people to know the danger that has been going around them. It is also a reference to something negative, which makes reader usually more interested, and it involved trying to end the violence. Fighting and stories that are negative, are more newsworthy. It is also like a follow up because they say in around 1994, Angola had also had a conflict between Congo, and then other places in Africa had joined. It is also full of killing and war, fighting against each other which makes it more newsworthy.


http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/12/congo.fighting/index.html