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African rendezvous in Paris
Determined to launch a new partnership with France, African leaders lobbied for more trade and improved aid at last week's Franco-African summit, writes Layla Hafez from Paris

The heart of hollowness
Tony Blair's tour of West Africa crowns Britain's triumphant military intervention in Sierra Leone, but Britain's former African colonies are counting on British largesse, writes Gavin Bowd

Life after default
Tempers are flaring as the Argentine government looks for a way out of the financial crisis. Hisham El-Naggar writes from Buenos Aires

Fuelling the fire
US President George Bush's "axis of evil" statements in his State of the Union address have infuriated the US's closest European allies, Anayat Durrani in Washington, reports

Kidnapped, still
Arrested prime suspect in the case of kidnapped journalist Daniel Pearl has repeatedly confirmed that the American is alive. Absar Alam reports from Karachi

Comment
America's vanishing promise
It is the hawks against the doves, and the hawks are winning. This is not the Knesset -- it is Capitol Hill, Mohamed Hakki, in Washington, writes

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		Al-Ahram Weekly Online 14 - 20 February 2002 Issue No.573
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