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South Africa: Change, but for whom?

Togo is back on track

Africa: Remembering the dismembered continent (2)

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Zimbabwe: No imminent elections

There has been change in South Africa, 20 years after Mandela’s release. Apartheid is no more. The number of households with electricity has shot from 50% to 80%. There is an expanding black middle class. But most of these improvements are cosmetic! The wealth is not circulating among the black majority. Shared poverty and debt is! So, for whom has the change come? Read it all here.Memberof TheAuditBureau of Circulations.

Ghana: Rawlings, latest victim of

Kenya: Scramble for economic

East Africa: First astronaut ready to fly

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Nigeria: A problematic solution

Comesa unleashing Africa’s potential

RIGHT OF REPLY

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No apologies, says ex-President Kufuor

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LETTER FROM LAGOS

Not waving but drowning

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LEST WE FORGET

Africa’s humanitarian aid workers

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FOCUS ON GHANA

A tourist haven

Bright economic prospects

Oil production on course

Ghana’s cocoa still top

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SPECIAL FEATURE

Sierra Leone: Rough justice?

NEEM TREE

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The joys of African storytelling

AFRICAN FOOTBALL

DIASPORA

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Italy: African immigrants’

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Editor’s note

A tragedy in Angola

Star interview: South Africa’s worst nightmare?

THE ARTS

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Steven Pienaar

Nigeria’s dance with disaster

South African coach Parreira speaks

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Britain: The king’s horseman

USA: Oscar calling

Congo/USA: Telling stories

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Blunt but fair: Quit Hayatou, quit through dance

AVIATION SPECIAL

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Take off for kick-off

BACK TO THE FUTURE

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Our debt to Haiti