Al-Ahram Weekly - International

		Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 8 - 14 October 1998 Issue No.398
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875		Current issue \| Previous issue \| Site map

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