Francis Kariuki Lanet Umoja

Twitter alarm in Kenya village: Help, sheep missing

When the administrative chief of this western Kenyan village received an urgent 4 a.m. call that thieves were invading a school teacher's home, he sent a message on Twitter. Within minutes residents in this village of stone houses gathered outside the home, and the thugs fled. "My wife and I were terrified," said teacher Michael Kimotho. "But the a...