These photos were taken during a Shia procession in the north of Nigeria last summer. Showing the glorification of Hezbollah and the Islamic revolution, the images suggest a shift towards the extreme in Islamic support in Sub-Saharan Africa. Read more and see the photos...

Material compiled by Marc Daou, our regional editor for the Middle East

'Douma Game,’ a street-combat game, was launched online shortly before President Emile Lahoud left office on 23 November (the election of his successor had been postponed six times). Inspired by the famous PlayStation game, ‘Tekken’, Douma Game features Lebanese politicians of all stripes locked in a battle for survival. One notable exception though, is Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who escapes the call to the boxing ring. For good reason, it seems. The last time Nasrallah was caricatured on television, there were riots in Beirut. So Douma Game's creator was careful about representing the pro-Iranian party, using one of Nasrallah’s deputies, Hussein Hajj Hassan, instead. Alas, Lebanese bloggers hardly had time to test the game, since it was stripped off-line by its own creator, officially for ‘legal reasons’.