In today's pick of the world papers - the Occupy movement tries to bring May Day protests to the US, and we look at whether Joseph Kony is really involved in the conflict in Sudan.
The director of a viral video about Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony was hospitalised for exhaustion after witnesses saw him running through the streets of San Diego in his underwear. The video has drawn fire for oversimplifying the 26-year-old conflict.
The International Criminal Court’s first conviction of Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga has reopened the debate on why the court has only tackled cases from Africa. But is that a fair charge?
A "Stop Joseph Kony" campaign has been launched on the internet. The American NGO Invisible Children wants to put pressure on US politicians to put an end to the bloodshed in northern Uganda. Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army rebels, is suspected of turning thousands of boys into fighters and girls into sex slaves across central Africa.
After a spate of foreigners being kidnapped on its land, Kenya has sent troops to southern Somalia. Is this the end of a tacit understanding between Nairobi and al-Shabab? Also, in a rare intervention on African soil, US military advisers are being sent to Uganda to fight the Lord's Resistance Army. Finally, we introduce you to the continent's newest sweetheart: Afro-funk star Sia Tolno.
Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army, led by Joseph Kony (photo), has abducted 697 people over 18 months and has murdered hundreds of them while forcing others, including children, to kill fellow captives, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels butchered at least 290 people in DR Congo in a previously unreported massacre that took place in December 2009, UN officials have revealed.
Toward the end of a three-month multinational offensive against them, Ugandan LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) rebels in northern Congo hacked 12 people to death and kidnapped around 40 others, according to rights activists.
The US military helped the Ugandan government finance and plan an attack on a rebel group that went awry in Congo, with fighters from Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army killing up to 900 civilians as they fled, The New York Times reports.
A gang of 13 rebels from the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army killed more than 100 people in a January 16 attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN has reported.
