The NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams (broadcast daily on CNBC Africa, DStv 410) had a fascinating story on Thursday night from international correspondent Ann Curry who travelled to the violence-torn Central African Republic (CAR) to talk to the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? TV producer who became a humanitarian.
In a fascinating and brilliant piece of television journalism, Ann Curry did the kind of story which South African viewers should be seeing on our own country's three 24-hour TV news channels in their coverage of Africa, but don't.
Ann Curry talked to Lindis Hurum, former producer of Norway's TV game show Who Wants to be a Millionare? but who left it behind to travel to the Central African Republic and the capital city of Bangui to help the people in this desperate place.
Violence erupted in the Central African Republic last March since a coup took place there; violence which recently intensified. Bangui airport in the capital has the country's biggest camp for displaced people, and this is where Lindis Hurum works.
More than a million people have so far fled their homes to escape the violence and of those 100 000 people fled to Bangui airport.
"At the end of the day its just a TV show. And I wanted to do something more with my life," Lindis Hurum told Ann Curry about why she left Norway and travelled to this desperate place.
She's now with Doctors Without Borders, building a 50 bed hospital, helping lost children, doing vaccinations, and runs a makeshift clinic which treats 400 people a day.
