Nbr. 2003, July 2003

Index

• Lesotho: Africa's best kept secret.
• Letters.
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• Correction.
• Corporate citizenship in a changing world.
• Africa: the Union takes shape. .
• DID we all do a Clare Short?
• Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
• In times of peace, prepare for war (final).
• Not in our name, definitely.
• Shame to the pretenders.
• We must stop them! (Baffour's Beefs).
• African Footballer of the Year 2002: El Hadji Diouf, the Senegalese playing for Liverpool, is likely to retain the title he won last year. But watch out for surprises.
• Diasporan wins Miss Malaika.
• Images of war.
• Living histories: historic moment as the sons and daughters of Nkrumah, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela came together for the first time.
• "The land has come back".
• Ghana so far, so good?
• Gunning for Winnie.
• Iraq: Courageous Mandela speaks for the world! (For the Record).
• Making the African Union succeed: the greatest issue in Africa from now to 2010 will be the African Union's consolidation and development or its failure to do so. .
• Non-Aligned Movement "Let America teach by example.
• Who say Africa is independent?
• Mrs Kinnock writes to New African.
• NEPAD: a partnership of unequal partners.
• The case for not eating GM! S.K. Agyemang-Duah defends his ground on GM food. "GM is an American invention. So let the Americans eat it," he writes.
• Francois responds; Francois Misser: "Mrs Kinnock does not comment on the fact that the EU Council Common Position concerning the travel ban, provides an exemption".
• Rwanda: "RPF had no foreign support"; Sam Louis Gisagara rebuts Uwe Freisecke's view that Rwanda's 1994 genocide was an international conflict, not an internal one, and thus the blame must be spread far and wide.
• Hypocrisy or deception?
• The generals' election.
• What future for Morgan?
• Who killed Samora Machel?
• Winnie, the woman: two testimonies showing her humanity and struggle against apartheid and oppression.
• "So far from God, so nearer to the US".
• Africa and the post-Iraq world: only by standing up as UNITED communities and nations can the Arab and African defend themselves.
• Oh God, let the rains come! having trounced the opposition to his land reform programme, President Mugabe and nearly 500,000 newly resettled farmers are now praying for the rains to come.
• Why did we become independent?
• Cure for Aids: a Cameroonian doctor has beaten the competition for an Aids vaccine. Surprise, surprise, his government is happy.
• "The system will correct itself".
• 4.7 million dead, and nobody cares?
• Brazil -- the black stake.
• Paradise lost: there are more questions than answers in the ongoing investigation into the bombing of the Paradise Hotel in Mombasa.
• The Africa that never was.
• Biya the stronger: President Paul Biya clocked 20 years in power in November, and like Johnnie Walker, he is still going strong.
• Sanoco breaks the male chain: women-only oil company to be launched.
• Congo will rise again! (Lest we Forget).
• Opposition renews bid to unseat Mugabe: Chipo Shoko reports from harare on new tactics of mass protests by the opposition MDC to wrestle power from the government.
• Poor Obasanjo! He and all the 36 state governors want another four years in office. But the "second term syndrome" is proving difficult to sell.
• Victory for democracy: some say it is a "political earthquake"; others say "it's old wine in new bottles". But this may be the new dawn that Kenyans had always yearned for.
• Discontent in the coalition: the honeymoon may still be on, but the coalition is not a happy one. John Kamau reports from Nairobi.
• Home of the Banjo: an intrepid Gambian researcher has traced the Banjo to its roots in western Gambia.
• Why 'soldier go, soldier come': Osasu Obayiuwana on why "militics"--instead of politics--has become the order of the day in Nigeria.
• Africa's relations with the West.
• African Union: some see mud, others see the stars.
• Enough is enough: having endured years of arm-twisting by the EU, the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries now say they have had enough.
• Kufuor's programme: relying on foreign handouts to run your country is a disgrace, and Ghana is in that exact position, says President Kufuor.
• One step forward, two steps back: caught between a weakening economy and rebel incursions, the Ivorian government is trying to find a delicate way out.
• Regime change - is Zimbabwe next? Since when did Britain and America care for the human rights of Zimbabweans? When the land issue exploded in 2000? Or when Ian Smith ruled a semi-apartheid Rhodesia?
• The 'master dribbler' dribbled?
• 'Elections na suffer head': the presidential voting was going on as we went to press, and President Olusegun Obasanjo was expected to win.
• Not a pretty picture.
• What contradiction! Liberia has been under attack by rebels for three-and-a-half years, and the UN still does not want the government to acquire arms to defend the country.
• Zenawi runs into London demo.
• "This is an economic war": Pascal D. Kokora, Cote d'Ivoire's ambassador in Washington, blames France for his country's recent woes.
• British soldiers in rape scandal: an attempt by the British government to play down the rape of Maasai women in rural Kenya by British soldiers for more than 20 years has come a cropper.
• Ghana: no hiding place for former oppressors; the national reconciliation commission (NRC), modelled on South Africa's truth and reconciliation commission, is now in full flight. And what harrowing tales are coming out! (Around Africa).
• Reform is in the air: the coalition for government reform is becoming bigger and bigger, and now business and the church have become members.
• Special Court causes major upset.
• The cheque is in the post: president John Kufuor is a happy man because his citizens living abroad are sending home more money than ever. George F. Asmah reports from Accra.
• What about the women?
• At last, an African conquers Mount Everest: Sibusiso Vilane climbed himself into the history books when he become the first black man to conquer the world's tallest mountain.
• Kibaki's broom sweeps clean: Blamuel Njururi, in Nairobi, reports on the new government's determination to sweep the stables clean. The chief justice has become one of the early casualties.
• Tax them out: a new stringent tax regime is driving foreigners and business away. But don't tell the government.
• The day after.
• 2002 in review: the big ones that count; we are looking back at 2002, and have selected some of the important speeches, books, and documents that marked the year.
• MDC supporters abandon leader in treason trial.
• Nigeria: "Operation Earthquake" sweeps the polls.
• Oh dear! "Impressionable" Gambian parents are taking money and handing over their children to Western paedophiles who visit the country to prey on children. Abdoulie Sey reports from Banjul.
• Playing maiden to America's war machine: not many people can spot it on the map, but Djibouti has increasingly become important in the American scheme of war.
• Sudan: is peace imminent? At long last Sudan's president, Omar Beshir, held a landmark meeting with the SPLA leader, Dr John Garang in Nairobi. So is peace imminent?
• The 'final push' that never was.
• Die, they must.
• Rawlings in the frame: the searchlight of the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) has now fallen on former President Jerry John Rawlings.
• The rand's amazing run: South Africa's currency is back where it belongs.
• There may be trouble ahead: the government of president Patasse is in danger. But France won't help its former colony and ally. It has even withdrawn its troops stationed there.
• Togo: buy me, I'm still the best; Cote d'Ivoire's descent into anarchy has frightened the Togolese into thinking of voting for "the devil they know" Ebow Godwin reports from Lome.
• Can famine be avoided? The spectre of famine is once again stalking Ethiopia almost 20 years after a million people died in the horrific 1984 tragedy.
• South Africa: goodnight good knight.
• The case of the mysterious fugitive: after the war, comes the consolidation of peace. But it is proving to be a bit much for president Tejan Kabbah's government. Mike Butscher reports from Freetown.
• Timbuktu manuscripts, evidence of Africa's glorious past.
• Uprooting the natives: The government's relocation of the natives of the Central Kalahari Desert has run into all sorts of problems with Survival International.
• "Elections will be held on schedule".
• Coffee woes, Congress rescue: the recent resolution by the US Congress to salvage the plummeting price of coffee may have come as a godsend for East Africa.
• Don't mention the economy: Pini Jason reports from Lagos how 30 parties campaigning for votes in the 19 April elections have still managed not to talk seriously about the economy.
• Senegal: time for revenge; now it is tit for tat, as Senegal throws out French illegal immigrants in retaliation for the humiliation suffered by Senegalese illegal immigrants in France. Paul Michaud reports from Paris.