Time for Erbakan
Former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan won a last-minute reprieve from prison last week as the judicial campaign against Turkey's first avowedly Islamist premier degenerated into farce, Gareth Jenkins reports from Istanbul

Civil unrest reborn
Khartoum blames opposition parties for nationwide unrest even as the violent protests rocking Sudanese cities have raised the spectre of a popular uprising, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Recollections of horror
As Palestinian refugees commemorated the 18th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacres, there were renewed calls for a lasting memorial to the victims. Ranwa Yehia reports from Beirut

Southern scars
After the joy of liberation, residents of south Lebanon now say their state will have to do much more to regain their confidence, reports Zeina Khodr from Beirut