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Kony rebels still abducting hundreds of children: UN

UNITED NATIONS — Joseph Kony’s Lord Resistance Army has abducted more than 600 child soldiers and sex slaves over the past two years even as the hunt for the rebel leader intensifies, the UN said Wednesday. Efforts to trap Kony have been redoubled since the release of an Internet documentary…

Rebel chief Kony ‘in Sudan-S.Sudan border areas’

Fugitive rebel warlord Joseph Kony is operating in volatile border areas between Sudan and South Sudan, as well as the Central African Republic, Uganda’s army chief said Monday. Kony, originally from Uganda, is based in remote regions between CAR, South Sudan’s Western Bahr el-Ghazal state, and Sudan’sSouth Darfur state, said Aronda Nyakairima, Uganda’s chief of defence forces. “The last…

Jon Stewart: Media just ‘annoyed’ Rihanna didn’t retweet their Kony coverage

On his show Monday night, Jon Stewart took on the “Kony 2012″ viral video, which called for greater efforts to arrest the fugitive head of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army. “The media just seems annoyed that it took this guy to get people to listen,” he joked. Both CNN’s Anderson Cooper…