All outstanding land claims in the country will be settled by 2011, says South Africa's Acting Chief Land Claims Commissioner Blessing Mphela. Addressing a quarterly media briefing in Limpopo on Wednesday about the progress made so far in land restitution, he said that since the commission on restitution of land rights was established in 1994, a total of 74 808 out of 79 696 claims have been settled.

The Kenyan government should account for dozens of missing people detained during the security operation in Mt. Elgon, Human Rights Watch said in a report. Human Rights Watch also called on Kenya to support independent investigations into torture and war crimes committed by security forces, and urged donors, including London and Washington, to review military aid to Kenya.

Kenya is one of the first beneficiaries of "Operation Monogram," the British government's counter-terrorism training and equipment foreign assistance program, because it shares a border with war-torn Somalia and because of its own experience of terrorist attacks. Research by Human Rights Watch has now provided hard evidence of abuses by Kenyan security forces that received British training.