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January 2002

Cover stories

Kenya: What life after Moi?
President Arap Moi retires at the end of 2002. What will life be in the country he leaves behind? We look at the race for his job, and why he has been reluctant to groom a successor.

Paragons of press freedom?

The Paris-based anti-censorship group, Reporters Sans Frontières, went to the USA to look at the health of the American media after September 11. Their report is shocking!

Destroying the Blue Book
In 1926, Britain, Germany and South Africa destroyed a damning book published by the British parliament “by command of His Majesty” on German atrocities in Namibia. Our report here is only for starters. We begin serialising the book proper in the February issue. It’s a WORLD EXCLUSIVE!

 

Around Africa
Regulars
  • Readers' Letters: Your news and views

OPINION:


BAFFOUR'S BEEFS:

Our friend Tony (part 2)

Our friend Tony Blair has been doing fine since we last parted company. He has got his Kabul, Kandahar was on the way at the time of writing, and he was only waiting for Osama to be delivered — dead or alive.
The massacre of 400 or so Taliban prisoners of war at Qalai Janghi in which British and American special forces participated, has not affected even a “t” of the Geneva Convention. Welcome to the brave new “War for Enduring Freedom”.

GALLERY:
  • Africa’s Miss World

FEATURE:

  • Books — what foreign news?