Most Westerners have no idea where N'Djamena is. Al Jazeera English operates a news bureau there (it's the capital of Chad).
AJE also has correspondents in Juba, Diyarbakir, Harare, Khartoum, Nouakchott, Skopje, and about 65 other cities, including a North American metropolis all but ignored by big U.S. media: Toronto.
The network, owned and operated by the Emirate of Qatar, no longer has anything to prove about the quality of its journalism. It has won all sorts of prestigious awards and broken all sorts of stories.
It is now in 80 million homes worldwide, and is known in our business as the outfit that's always in places nobody else covers...
read more here: http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/news/story/2013/01/10/f-rfa-macdonald-al-jazee...