Unimaginable horror as helicopter-borne poachers massacre 22 elephants before hacking off their tusks and genitals

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134696/Scene-unimaginable-horror-helicopter-borne-poachers-massacre-22-elephants.html Record numbers of ivory seizures amid rise of organised crime gangs By Simon Tomlinson PUBLISHED: 17:35 EST, 24 April 2012 | UPDATED: 17:53 EST, 24 April 2012 In a scene of inconceivable horror, these slaughtered elephant carcasses show the barbaric lengths poachers will go to in their hunt for nature’s grim booty. The bodies […]

Kony 2012 director confined to a mental ward: Director who had nude ‘meltdown’ on streets is kept in care as wife blames shock popularity of video for behaviour

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116184/Kony-2012-video-director-Jason-Russell-arrested-drunk-performing-sex-act-public.html Jason Russell, co-founder of the charity Invisible Children, is being held in a psychiatric ward He was reported to be masturbating in public and running through the streets wearing only his underwear His wife, Danica, has blamed his breakdown on the attention and personal criticism the YouTube film has generated  The Ugandan government has […]

Kony 2012 video director arrested after he was ‘found drunk and performing sex act in public’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116184/Kony-2012-video-director-arrested-drunk-performing-sex-act-public.html By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 18:22 EST, 16 March 2012 | UPDATED: 18:22 EST, 16 March 2012 The director of the ‘Kony 2012’ viral video has been arrested for allegedly being drunk and masturbating in public. Jason Russell, co-founder of the charity Invisible Children, was hospitalised after being found behaving strangely on the streets […]

Congo war lord found guilty of stealing children from families and training them to fight his brutal civil war

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114878/Congo-war-lord-Thomas-Lubanga-guilty-stealing-children-training-fight.html First conviction in ten years by the International Criminal Court By Mail Foreign Service PUBLISHED: 08:20 EST, 14 March 2012 | UPDATED: 10:05 EST, 14 March 2012 A Congolese warlord was today convicted of snatching children from the street and turning them into killers in the International Criminal Court’s first judgment at the Hague […]

‘Neo-colonialist’ Kony 2012 filmmakers forced to release video defending themselves as photo reveals them posing with heavy weapons in Africa

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2113956/Kony-2012-Photo-shows-Invisible-Children-founders-posing-weapons.html By Michael Zennie PUBLISHED: 12:53 EST, 12 March 2012 | UPDATED: 18:49 EST, 12 March 2012 The filmmakers behind the Kony 2012 movie, which attracted 74 million viewers in one week, have been forced to release a new video sometime today defending their organization, Invisible Children, as mounting criticism diverts attention from their campaign […]

‘Nodding disease’ confounds experts, kills children

http://news.yahoo.com/nodding-disease-confounds-experts-kills-children-133016632.html By Max Delany | AFP – 15 hrs ago Patrick Anywar, 14, lies curled up naked in the dust and midday heat of a Ugandan village, struggling to look up at his younger brother and sister playing in front of the family home. After a minute’s effort to face his siblings, Anywar’s head slumps onto his […]

Nigeria faces mass strike and protests over discontinued state fuel subsidy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/08/nigeria-fuel-strike-seun-kuti Thousands expected to march through streets of Lagos and Abuja after petrol pump prices more than double overnight Monica Mark in Lagos guardian.co.uk, Sunday 8 January 2012 15.58 EST The timing could hardly have been worse. Already grappling with a string of attacks by a violent Islamist group in recent weeks, Nigeria‘s government now […]