In previous episodes of The Vice Guide to Travel, we road-tripped through North Korea, shopped for dirty bombs in Bulgaria, and hunted mutant wild boars in Chernobyl. Little did we know that all of our harrowing journeys would leave us only semi-prepared for a recent trip to war-ravaged, godforsaken Liberia. Since 1989, a series of brutal civil wars — primarily fought by drug-addicted, prepubescent... 

Total death toll in religious violence is reportedly near 400 Nearly a week after the outbreak of violence between Nigerian Muslims and Christians, aid workers have found up to 150 more bodies stuffed into wells and sewage pits. In the central village of Kuru Karama, many victims had been shot, hacked to death, or burned alive, reports the BBC. “So far we have picked 150 bodies from the wells,”... 

Remember when then candidate Obama told “Joe the Plumber” that he thought spreading the wealth around would give everyone a chance? President Obama sincerely believes this, but one has to wonder if this is just the silly pinings of an inexperienced mind. This redistribution of wealth is being carried out right now in Zimbabwe. How’s it working out? Let’s have a look. Mugabe,... 

Beaten: Mike, left, and Ben whose farmland in Zimbabwe was torched They turned up that dark evening, as they would for many more to come, when supper was over. Screaming ‘out, out, out’ and thumping drums, Mugabe’s mob lit a noose of 50 fires around the farmhouse. In the flickering circle of flames, it was easy to see the AK-47 automatic rifles they waved above their angry faces. Inside,... 

Robert Mugabe’s ‘land redistribution’ policy, under which Zimbabwe’s white-owned farms have been brutally plundered, has ruined thousands of lives and turned once-productive areas into wastelands. A new documentary tells the moving story of one family, their bodies beaten, their home torched, who refuse to roll over. Graham Boynton reports. There is a moment in Mugabe and the White African... 

Lucky escape: The actress was injured by flying glass Actress Victoria Smurfit has revealed she came within inches of death when a gunman opened fire on a taxi she was travelling in while holidaying in South Africa – the nation that will stage the World Cup in just six months. The glamorous actress, who has starred in ITV police drama Trial & Retribution and the BBC’s Ballykissangel, was injured... 

May 10, 2009 photo released by her family of Sharon Brown 39, holding her baby Margaux. A lone elephant charged out of the bush as an American family was hiking near Mount Kenya and trampled to death a mother and the 1-year-old daughter she held in her arms, officials said Wednesday. Four adults and the baby were walking with an unarmed guide just outside Mount Kenya National Park on Monday morning... 

Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox church, leads prayers at the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, early Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010. Three men in a car sprayed automatic gunfire into a crowd of churchgoers in southern Egyptian as they left a midnight Mass for Coptic Christmas, killing at least seven people in a drive-by shooting, the church bishop and security officials said. Egypt’s... 

Africa’s rapidly growing population projected to see urbanisation, economic growth, health and climate problems. The baby’s name and nationality are not known. The child will grow up innocent of having a place in history. But somewhere, this year, that child became the billionth person in Africa, the continent with the fastest growing population in the world. Climbing from 110 million... 

Finally we ran across an image of this bank note! We knew about it for about 1.5 years now, but we had yet to see an actual image of it. We ran across a picture of it today, plus two more similar images of a 50 Trillion and a 10 Trillion denomination. Keep in mind that Zimbabwe was an ex-colony of England and under European leadership this country developed smooth and fast. It used to be called Rhodesia... 

African leaders will ask rich nations for $67 billion per year to mitigate the impact of global warming on the world’s poorest continent, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters on Monday. Ten leaders are holding talks at African Union (AU) headquarters in the Ethiopian capital to try to agree a common stance ahead of a U.N. summit on climate change in Copenhagen in December. Experts... 

A shocking case from Kenya managed to make the world speechless. Gangs of black Kenyans specifically attack their fellow country men who suffer from a congenital disorder that makes them look white, mutilate them and sell their organs. The mistaken belief that albino body parts have magical powers has driven thousands of Africa’s albinos into hiding, fearful of losing their lives and limbs to... 

Line-up people! Soon you will receive more free money! Although global warming has been proven by more than 30,000 scientists and the recent hacked UK emails to be a fraud, these people demand billions of our money collected from taxes and most likely our corrupt politicians will give them whatever they demand. African leaders agreed on Tuesday on how much cash to demand from the rich world to compensate... 

Militants have been demanding a greater share of the oil wealth The European Commission has signed a $1bn (£602m) development pact with Nigeria, aimed at tackling corruption and promoting peace. A substantial amount of the funding will be spent on resolving conflict in the oil-rich and crime-plagued Niger Delta, the EU’s development chief said. The money will also target electoral reform and... 

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