Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
18 - 24 January 2001
Issue No.517
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End-games
Will Bill Clinton return to the White House sometime in the future as the spouse of a new president? That's just one of the ideas being put about as he reaches the end of his term, as Ervin Hladnik-Milharcic observed in New York

All the king's horses
The old Somalia cannot be put together again, nor can the new Somalia be permitted to fragment into rival statelets. So is Ethiopia the main reason behind Somalia's predicament? Gamal Nkrumah asks


A group of anti-government protesters call for the ouster of Indonesia's democratically-elected President Abdurrahman Wahid in front of the presidential palace in Jakarta. Security forces remain on alert because of mass demonstrations this week aimed at toppling the Wahid government
(photo: AP)

Congo's fate in doubt
Laurent Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been shot by one of his bodyguards. As Gamal Nkrumah reports, whether his wounds proved fatal is still unclear

A deathly silence on Depleted Uranium
Keeping a lid on the ravages brought about by NATO's use of Depleted Uranium in Kosovo is becoming harder by the day, but the United States and its allies stubbornly continue to deny the facts, writes Gavin Bowd

A manifesto for resistance
Challenging the G-8 meeting in Davos, the anti-globalisation movement is convening in Porto Alegre to put forward an alternative agenda, writes Faiza Rady

Too little, too late
Parting ways
Shifting fates
River of pilgrims
Offshore plague


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