A Muslim cleric i Kenya said it is wrong for Muslims to be drawn by offers to work as mercenary fighters since it is against the principles of Islam.

France appeared to aver dictator Muammar Gadaffi's denunciation of a "new feudalism" represented by land grabs by third countries in Africa. South Korea has 1.7 million acres for wheat in Sudan; the United Arab Emirates is also a landlord in the Sudan.

The head of the United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO) has pledged that his agency will help Somalia repress piracy off its coast and in the Gulf of Aden, including through assisting in the creation of a national coast guard.

The Al Shabaabi organization is castigating women for wearing bras it deems 'deceptive'. The women are inspected, forced to remove their bras and display their breasts.

The ordinary African is in the cross-fire of struggles over land and resources, but not of his choice. When elephants dance, the grass is trampled.