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     COMMENTS: Still on Photo Safari, Even in a Drought

The yearlong drought in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya finally attracted the attention of a nightly newscast. ABC's Nairobi-based Dana Hughes told us about desperate gun-toting rival tribes "launching violent raids to steal cattle and lands for grazing" in northern Kenya. As admirable as this assignment was in publicizing an undercovered story, Hughes could not avoid that cliche of African reporting--supplementing her coverage of human misery with that of wildlife. See the starving baby elephant in the Samburu National Reserve.

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