JOSS STONE - JOSS STONE HORRIFIED BY AFRICA'S CHILD EATERS

JOSS STONE HORRIFIED BY AFRICA'S CHILD EATERS

British soul star JOSS STONE is haunted by stories she was told during a recent trip to Africa - about the child soldiers who are forced to eat their friends. The singer can't believe information about the cannibalistic atrocities isn't more widespread and fears people are more interested in her hair colour and BRITNEY SPEARS' troubles than real, horrific news. Stone, who took the trip to Africa before starting work on her new album, tells Venice magazine, "I didn't know that for 20 years now, maybe more, there's an army of people... they steal young children from their parents while they're sleeping. "They steal them at the ages of three and four and they basically turn them into killing machines and they make them eat each other. "If one of them tries to run away they shoot (him) and then have (him) brought back and have the other children eat (him). "It's so barbaric and horrible and disgusting and I'm like, 'Why don't I know about this?' "You're giving me a two-page spread on the colour of my hair... and then there's this going on. And then you talk about Britney's shaved head."