The Associated Press, was accused of racial reporting in which in acknowledging Ethiopian plane crash possible causalities, Africa was not counted, portraying a picture that whether Africans died or not did not matter.
The United States-based media house, in a Breaking News tweet posted after the crash, wrote: “BREAKING: Authorities say Canadians, Chinese, Americans, Italians, Indians, French, British, Egyptians among those killed in Ethiopian plane crash.”
It was not lost on many that Africans were largely left out of the alert and many felt the reporting was partially biased, inconsiderate and insensitive since Kenya had the highest number of casualties from the incident at 32.
The continent, at large, lost about 55 souls from the fatal crash yet Egypt was the only African country mentioned by The Associated Press.
Other African countries that had casualties from the accident include: Ethiopia (9), Morocco (2), as well as Mozambique, Sudan, Somalia, Togo, Uganda and Nigeria with one each.
Taking to Twitter, netizens rubbished the New York not-for-profit news agency further urging them to pull down or edit the post.
The media house was, however, yet to respond or react to the backlash as at the time of publishing.