“I don’t know another network that would let us cover not one but two humanitarian crises and say, ‘Let’s devote three nights to it,’” Anderson Cooper told USA Today from Congo.

360 has been titled “Killing Fields: Africa’s Misery, The World’s Shame” this week.

“The Congo is not on the top of people’s list of things they’d like to watch,” Cooper says. “But if you can tell an interesting story and take people on a journey and introduce them to people they wouldn’t otherwise have met, people are interested. They do care.”