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Cover stories
Mbeki: Aids, the fight is on!
While the world looks away and the Western media refuse to report it, something very important is happening in South Africa to Aids. Ten experiments, including the cause of Aids and the isolation of HIV, recommended by the interim report of Mbeki’s Presidential Aids Advisory Panel which was set up last year, are about to get underway. When the experiments are complete, the world will finally know what Aids is all about. Osei Boateng reports.


Congo: The darlings are falling

Now the untouchables have been touched. Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi have been named and shamed by a United Nations investigation into the looting of Congo’s resources. All that is left is for the Security Council to put the icing on the cake. Africa can’t wait, reports Baffour Ankomah.
 
Around Africa
  • Kenya: British bombs cause mayhem
  • Gabon\France: The horse and the jockey
  • Zambia: No third term for Chiluba
  • Africa\OAU: The Union is born!
  • Ghana: Honeymoon, what honeymoon?
  • Congo: 3 million dead
  • Ethiopia: Crackdown in Addis?
  • Togo: The cheque isn’t in the post
  • Senegal: Did Wade get his elegant elections?
  • The ‘slave ship’ and ‘Mr Unlucky’

Regulars
  • Readers' Letters: Zimbabwe: The pros and cons

OPINION:

  • A society like ours has no need of slaves

MEDICAL THEMES:

  • The teenager with sickle cell disease


 
 

ARTS AND CULTURE:

  • When looters have a choice
  • Sainbury’s African galleries

THE ARTS:

  • Yaa Asantewaa, warrior queen

BAFFOUR’S BEEFS:

  • From Sweden with love

NA MARKET:

  • South Africa: Eat and let’s eat
  • Congo: Business as usual?

RELIGION:

  • Will it be Pope Arinze I or Pengo II