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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Salaams, I agree and I noticed no African news sources out of the African continent. A good news paper to have would by the daily sun out of South Africa, it is the most widely read paper in South Africa. I always check this paper and had no idea it was the most widely read paper out of South Africa, google told me. I just like to stay up to date with my world news sources, news junky. Aljazeera is a good English paper for the middles East. I do not have on news line, but, I have off my news off my phone. The paper for the most populated African nation, Nigeria, would be the Punch Newspaper. There news site, could be more accessible, maybe nfb could work on it with them. I get news from these sources. I would like to see if anyone else has asked. Also, if they have not ratified the Marrakesh Treaty, perhaps, the copyrights are not in play to access these news sources so, the NFB can have them off newsline! It always amazes me that we have this thing called world news everyday, only .005 percent is world and the rest is focused on the USA. I never here about the flooding in South Africa, crop failures in Nigeria and the west African famine that is increasing as they cant get grain from Ukraine. We do live in a closed bottle in the States and most Americans could not find these countries on the map or realize that the shortages is 2 or 3 times as bad for them. You may not get the chocolate Taco but, people in Africa cant get water or basic grain to make bread for their kids. We are upset because of monky pox and not having enough vaccine, While in Africa, people are not just being treated for it, their actually dying because of it. No papers in our nation even talk about this on the front pages or</p><p class=MsoNormal> Even the second pages. I think you get a tibbet of the BBC world service. I love NFB newsline but, remember it faces all the failures that all American media inherently has, for our ethnocentric views about the world and where we fit in it. I always wonder why we do not have something like the BBC world services in the states. If more people had access to a truly world news service, maybe, people in the states would not be so ignorant about the rest of the world. </p><p class=MsoNormal>Salaam wa-nor sister Heather </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:nfb-muslims@nfbnet.org">ibrahim abedrabbo via NFB-Muslims</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, August 7, 2022 8:53 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:nfb-muslims@nfbnet.org">nfb-muslims@nfbnet.org</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:abedrabboibrahim@gmail.com">ibrahim abedrabbo</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[NFB-Muslims] NFB-Newsline, just curious</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Salam dear listers,</p><p class=MsoNormal>I have been using the NFB Newsline app on my iPad and iPhone for several years. I should say that it is one of the best services that any blind organization can offer to its members and the community at large. The NFB must be commended for this effort.</p><p class=MsoNormal>It caught my attention however, the absence of all news sources from the Muslim countries, unless I missed something. So I read the entire list of papers and magazines and also noticed the absence of all African news sources from the list too. I found papers from All US fifty states and almost all the English speaking countries; Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and India. I also found one daily from Japan, one from Russia, and two from Israel.</p><p class=MsoNormal>I do not know what to make of the absence of the African and Muslim countries from the list! Were they dropped by mistake, lack of importance, ignorance of the news sources available in English, or is it a deliberate decision?</p><p class=MsoNormal>Since many of you are active within the NFB and have been for many years, how do you explain this lack of the news sources from Africa and the Muslim countries?</p><p class=MsoNormal>Look forward to listening to your opinions.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Salamat to all of you.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Ibrahim</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from my iPhone</p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>NFB-Muslims mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>NFB-Muslims@nfbnet.org</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-muslims_nfbnet.org</p><p class=MsoNormal>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFB-Muslims:</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-muslims_nfbnet.org/kd5cbl%40gmail.com</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>