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The African Union will send 5,000 soldiers to join the hunt for rebel leader Joseph Kony in a new military mission officials say is necessary to remove the Lord's Resistance Army from Central Africa's vast jungle. The mission is to be launched in South Sudan on Saturday and will last until Kony is caught, United Nations and African Union officials said at a news conference in Uganda.

Invisible Children's co-founder Jason Russell is to remain in hospital for weeks after California police found him semi-naked and "acting bizarrely".

Uganda's government has taken to the Internet to correct a "false impression" about the country it says was created by a U.S. celebrity-backed online campaign to hunt down fugitive warlord Joseph Kony.

Police say they detained the co-founder of the group behind the “KONY 2012” video, after witnesses reported a man masturbating and possibly under the influence, NBCSanDiego.com reported.

Police say they detained the co-founder of the group behind the “KONY 2012” video, after witnesses reported a man masturbating and possibly under the influence, NBCSanDiego.com reported.

If you don’t know who Joseph Kony is at this point in time, which seems unlikely, I invite you to watch this video – which has been viewed by over 50 million people in the past two weeks – or read this Wikipedia article. Kony is #1 on the International Criminal Court’s list of people indicted by them for crimes against humanity. He and his movement, the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) have abducted tens of thousands of children over the past 25+ years, forcing them to become sex slaves or boy soldiers who have murdered and mutilated thousands of others.

If Joseph Kony lived in relative anonymity before this week, he's found Internet stardom now. A video about the atrocities carried out by Kony's Lord's Resistance Army is rocketing into viral video territory and is racking up millions of page views seemingly by the hour.