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Finance & Development December 1, 2000 Saleh M. Nsouli	Capacity Building in Africa: The Role of International Financial Institutions This article reviews the evidence on the importance of domestic institutions for economic growth and examines the role of international financial institutions, and particularly the IMF and its training, in capacity building in Africa.
Finance & Development December 1, 2000 Willy H. Verheye	Food Production or Food Aid?: An African Challenge Food production is not keeping pace with Africa's rapidly growing needs. Aid programs in the 1970s and 1980s were considered a temporary solution to the most appalling famines, but Africa's food shortage appears to be worsening. This paper discusses the reasons for this situation and ways to address it.
Fast Company December 2000 Christine Canabou	Africa.net Imagine a place without postal delivery, where the nearest telephone is more than 100 kilometers away. Now consider the Internet in that environment. It will fundamentally transform Africa, more so than any other place in the world...
Salon.com September 27, 2000 Susan Emerling	Not forever The death of South African diamond magnate Harry Oppenheimer last month might mark the end of global domination for one of the world's most infamous cartels.
Salon.com August 15, 2000 Megan Williams	See no AIDS, hear no AIDS In Swaziland, villagers spend every weekend burying their dead, but they still can't admit what's killing them. A report from ground zero of the African holocaust.
Salon.com July 28, 2000 Kate Scanell	Contributing to genocide By giving HIV deniers a global platform, South African President Mbeki has put countless lives at risk.
Salon.com February 4, 2000 Emily Bass	A new urgency With his country at the epicenter of an AIDS epidemic, the special advisor to South Africa's health minister quietly makes his first trip to an important research conference.
Salon.com May 18, 2000 Sabin Russell	The dream and the coming disaster AIDS threatens to ravage the hopes of South Africa's young democracy. Don't expect leaders to get excited because a few companies cut the cost of HIV drugs.
Salon.com June 8, 2000 J.A. Getzlaff	Kenyan schoolchildren take over town Outraged by a classmate's death, hundreds go on a "drunken rampage."
Salon.com June 6, 2000 Rolf Potts	My Beirut hostage crisis Taken under the wing of a Lebanese detergent tycoon, our correspondent learns that there's a fine line between hospitality and kidnapping.
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