Will CNN apologise?

In one of its recent TV reports, and in relation to Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to Kenya, CNN has described the country and the whole region of East Africa as being a “hotbed of terror,” something which made the Kenyan minister of interior Joseph Nkaissery officially calls on the media to apologise. 

The exact statement that led to this reaction was: Mr Obama was “not just heading to his father’s homeland, but to a region that’s a hotbed of terror.” A statement that was backed up by the talk of security analyst Seth Jones who said that “security for the president is likely to be very significant and that means what Al-Shabaab is likely to do, based on what it has done very recently, is go for a soft target.”

In a news conference, Nkaissery said that CNN would apologise, “if it was civilised enough.” That is because Kenya is just like any other East African country that might be attacked by Al Shabaab extremist group. In a tweet published by Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation, he also said: “I urge Kenyans to treat the @CNN report with the contempt it deserves.”

Kenyans have responded to his call

It seems that a lot of Kenyans had more or less the same reaction as their minister of interior. The hashtag #SomeoneTellCNN was used several times and thus developed into a campaign in order to make the US TV channel, as well as other western media, to think before saying anything about any African nation.

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