Maybe I missed something, but alongside the news of the fires in the Brazilian Amazon rain forest decimating that unparalleled marvel (and carbon sink), there's been a lot less about this. Central Africa is burning also.
Weather Source has recorded 6,902 fires in Angola over the past 48 hours, compared to 3,395 in the Democratic Republic of Congo and 2,127 in Brazil. It’s not an uncommon phenomenon for Central Africa.
Maybe the relative omission is because western media (understandably) have it in for Brazil's autocratic president, Jair Bolsonaro. Or maybe we just don't give much of a damn about what happens in the Congo Basin.
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