For Africa, the election of George W. Bush to the American Presidency is an unmitigated disaster. He thinks Nigeria is a continent and couldn’t care less if it isn’t. Milan Vesely takes a sober look at what Bush’s term in office will mean for Africa.

• City View : Watch out, the US is sneezing!
  
• Topic: Investment risk - Where and where not to invest
  
• Health: Eradicating polio
  
• Technology: How to set up your own website
  
• Resources: Foreign trawlers threaten African fisheries
• Trends: South Africa - Saying sorry is not enough
• Special Focus: Ethiopia - Red carpet for US investors
• Special Focus: Ethiopian coffee - the best in the world?
• Special Focus: Djibouti shakes off dust
  

• Clip-Lok boxes; breakthrough water purifier; Clockwork radio
  
• Stinging entrepreneurs into action; Tele-tech for the deaf

• Ghana: Kufuor’s inheritance
• S Africa: Time to quit bonds
• Sierra Leone: Fuel, rice prices fall