It has never been easier to read about the world. It has rarely been harder to find out what is happening down the road.

Local reporters attend the council meeting nobody else does. They read the tender notices, ask why the road was never finished, and tell you when the clinic runs out of medicine. When they disappear, those questions go unasked.

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