Change of heart?
The World Bank and IMF chiefs pledged to heed African concerns during an assessment tour of Africa. Is that all they offer Africa's poor? asks Gamal Nkrumah

Vulnerable but defiant
Protests in Indonesia raise the spectre of Suharto's inelegant departure, but is President Abdurrahman Wahid the goblin of graft that opposition forces say he is? asks Nyier Abdou

Big White House garage sale
Former US President Bill Clinton's last controversial political acts tarnished his image even further, writes Ervin Hladnik-Milharcic from New York

Devious diversions
Fair-weather friend
Acts of war
Let down

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