Some places seem to just drop off the map. The phenomena is not so hard to spot. One day such and such a country is all the rage. The TV crews are there. The think tanks are whirring away.
Politicians assure their constituencies that 'something is being done'.
Maybe even a policy is tweaked here or there. And slowly at first and then suddenly like the equatorial sun going down in Africa, the lights are taken down, the show is over and the circus moves out of town. The politicians move on to the next crisis hoping next time that the foreign names are a little easier to pronounce and wishing that those charity groups would stop being so troublesome and just get the food, or whatever, there a bit quicker next time. The day after the circus moves out is just another day like the day before. Another day to survive.