Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Urgent tweet in Kenya village: Help, sheep missing
[ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:22:30 GMT ]

In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 13, Chief Francis Kariuki, left, reads a tweet on his mobile phone at his office in the village of Lanet Umoja, near Nakuru, in the Rift Valley of Kenya.The administrative chief of a dusty African village regularly sends out tweets about missing children and farm animals, even alerts to crime in the area, showing that the power of social media has reached an area 100 miles from the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.


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