Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
8 - 14 October 1998
Issue No.398
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Betting on Brazil
Western creditors could not have hoped for a better result than the re-election of the country's president, writes Gamal Nkrumah


More war drums,
different drummers

The last thing Africa's troubled Great Lakes region can afford is a new cross-border war. But as Peter Mwesige reports, new war drums are beating
Malaysia's winds of change
The prosecution of Malaysia's deputy prime minister, Ibrahim Anwar, has unleashed a fierce power struggle. Whatever the outcome, argues Jomo KS, Malaysian politics and political culture will never be the same again