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/ 16 February 2005
Tropical Africa is the new rage among the gastronomic glitterati of Cairo. Planet Africa opened its door last month in the affluent northern Cairo suburb of Heliopolis. It is the latest and largest example of a surge of interest in African things. It is now de rigueur, mainly among the more youthful set of the Egyptian middle classes, to decorate flats and villas in sub-Saharan African themes.
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/ 17 January 2005
Last Sunday, more than 20 heads of state arrived in Nairobi to attend the signing of a final agreement between the Sudan government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/ Movement that formally ended Africa’s longest-running civil conflict. But the pronouncements about peace and stability throughout Africa’s largest country that this triggered are premature.