Flooding in Africa

I don't mean any offense to the victims of the recent earthquake in Italy, but I'm wondering why the media I've seen is not paying as much attention to the massive flooding in South Africa. The BBC has a short blurb about it on its website with a map of the area affected by the flooding.

"Matthew Cochrane, from the International Federation of Red Cross, told the BBC that if Zimbabwe's Kariba dam reaches capacity, authorities there may be forced to open the floodgates.

If this happens, Mozambique would be hit by a wall of water and tens of thousands more people would be displaced, he warned.

Nearly 100,000 people have already been made homeless, he added."

This is a tremendous catastrophe displacing many people. It deserves as much attention and international aid as what's happening now outside Rome. This reinforces a common social justice criticism of the media that it ignores/omits stories of minorities.