CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT, CNN JOHANNESBURG BUREAU CHIEF (on camera): South Africa is uniquely positioned for a bureau on the continent. Because for one thing, South Africa has the infrastructure, the airplanes, and the schedules to get me other places on the continent that I need to go. The first thing that is important, that I think is often not understood about Africa by people who are not there is that Africa is a continent and not a country. When there is a conflict in Sierra Leone, or in Zimbabwe, reports are "more conflict in Africa." Well, there are 48 countries in sub- Saharan Africa. And if you take the whole continent, over 50. And, each one is quite different. It is a vast continent, 600 million people, many of them different, Muslims, Christians, people with indigenous religions, different kinds of cultures. There are ties that bind this country to every other country on the globe. And so, it is in the best interest of people in the west to be interested in what's going on in the global south.
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