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took the street to lament about social conditions in France. In a society that does not offer them job or opportunities because of their racial background, the youth took to the streets to voice their concerns. While damages were made, the message was received.

Other rebellions happened in Somalia. In a country that has no formal government, lacks UN assistance and its poverty level cannot be recorded, pirates took to the high seas to capture western merchandise. The acts were a response to the economic pressures Somalia faces in its fractured country. The concerns and the plights of the Somalis, reemerged as an international issue.

Poverty finally, only makes the news when stakes of the wealthiest organizations, people and interest groups are threatened. The genocide in Sudan has garnered attention in the international community. The crisis has been pinned as genocide by the United Nation Organization. For the UN, the genocide in Sudan is a humanitarian crisis but for many in the global north, it's bad for business. Therefore, companies lobby governments to take sides or to enter a country if their profits, some vital to a country's economy, dwindle. It may not be the case for Sudan, but it is not rare for a country to enter in another country ravaged by war, poverty and diseases to save their assets.

Even if the correlation between business, profiting and opportunism is clear, the news doesn't discuss it. It will discuss the poverty issues within the country in question. It will discuss the lives lost. But the very issue would not have made the news if it did not compromise trades in the global north.

Poverty makes the news when it occurs closer to home: when it occurs in the least expect places, there are strong manifestations and when the global north's interest are compromised. Hence, what we don't know, see or feel, doesn't hurt us!

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