Al-Ahram Weekly | Features

For over two decades Afghanistan's main export has been refugees. As another war winds down in the country, Al-Ahram Weekly explores the lot of the millions of Afghans who sought to escape the carnage

A people at ground zero
Although a semblance of peace has been restored to Afghanistan, refugees from the war-torn country face a bleak future, writes Iffat Malik from Islamabad

Elusive homeland
From the teeming refugee camps of Iran to the relative tranquillity of Cairo's Al-Azhar university, Negar Azimi finds Afghanis with little faith in the trumpeted message of a new, stable and more prosperous homeland

The devil's curse
Poorly educated about the HIV virus, rural African towns are being starved and depopulated by AIDS. Alfred Omondi looks at the cultural obstacles that aggravate the AIDS scourge

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		Al-Ahram Weekly Online 7 - 13 February 2002 Issue No.572
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