There’s all the stupid celebrity publicity how about some real news a point Kevin Watkins makes about maternal death

The women facing these risks do not make headlines. Last week, the world’s media descended on a high court in Malawi to cover Madonna’s application to adopt Mercy James, a four-year-old orphan. There has been no coverage of the fate of Mercy’s 18-year-old mother, who died five days after giving birth, or why Malawi has one of the world’s highest maternal death rates. Kevin Watkins, The Guardian.

I guess African women aren’t newsworthy – racism and sexism in one.