AfricanBUSINESS JANUARY 2001 No 261

CONTENTS

Editorial 7 Unmasking aid the whistle silently 27 BMW in West Africa.

Cover Story

Stock Markets

8 UN Peacekeepers, warriors 28 JSE moves house or victims? 29 Child of the gold rush

Around and About

Mining Notebook

12 Botswana tops the world 31 DeBeers, Anglo to split?

Are UN’s African Peacekeepers victims?

C L t y y ie w 14 Wooing the investor

Topic 16 Day of the Sangoma

Commodities 19 Metal prices hold firm

Technology 21 Ethiopia goes mobile

Products Processes 25 Building w ithout bricks, Retreiving gun numbers 26 Investigative analysis, Colourful escalators, Blowing

Environment 32 Oil and ethics conflict

C a m itryfile 34 DRC: Saga of the rock 36 Zim: Land issue laager? 37 Malawi: Kwacha regains stablity

Business Travel 38 Destination Dakar

Traditional healers come into their own

Bopks 40 Abyssinian Chronicles 41 The Bang Bang Club, War of Words 42 Guns and Ghandi in Africa

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