CONTENTS NEWSFLASH 7 Newsflash 8 Agenda 9 Psst. . .

FEATURES 11 Letter from Lagos: suitcase fury

12 Kenya budgets for uncertainty; dealing with drought; tourism outlook

16 Sudan: The road to confrontation

AGRICULTURE FOCUS 20 Making agriculture pay 21 Commodities-at a price

24 Cash crops vs food crops: Ghanaian example

26 Zambian livestock

BANKING AND FINANCE 27 Swiss claim worst of crisis over; Ghana's bank haul

CONSTRUCTION 28 Kenya's cheap housing; Mombasa bridge?

ENERGY 29 Renewable energy plans in Sudan & Cape Verde

________ WEST GERMANY AND AFRICA________

30 Overview: New impulses 31 Nigeria heads export decline

33 Aid: Commitments to fall 37 Investment: Oil beckons 39 Tourism: Slump eases 40 Market experience: Secret report

____________COUNTRY BRIEFINGS

44 Ghana: Feast and famine 45 Ivory Coast: More investment incentives 46 Ethiopia: Land-use projects 48 Mozambique: US aid resumes 49 Zambia: Forex position worsens 50 Rwanda: Tea & tin to rescue 51 Uganda: Two-window rate closes 53 Tanzania: Desperation budget

Tourism is just one aspect o f the Kenyan economy showing plenty o f potential. Our correspondent reports on the ambitions o f the latest budget and examines the constraints.

Sudan is as heavily burdened with conflict as this Sudanese farmer is with his harvest With government isolation showing no signs o f abating, A B looks at the roots o f dissent.

LABOUR

54 Expulsions up; Kenya union ban; Cameroon & computers

MANUFACTURING & TECHNOLOGY

55 Sudan textiles on the skids

56 Steel in Mozambique & Zambia; how computers abet South Africa

ECOWAS TELECOMMUNICATIONS SURVEY* 58 Introduction by Dr R Tubman 59 Bringing phones to West Africa 59 Telephone as engine of growth 63 Communications needs by country 64 Projects & tenders so far

NIGERIA SURVEY: THE NEW ECONOMY

67 Debts & the IMF 69 Stock exchange needs reform 71 Export insurers'battle 73 Agriculture-new incentives?

73 Hydrocarbons green light

MARKET NETWORK___________ 77 Troubled Sudan tea; Scoa reorganises 78 KLM and the tro-tros

MINING 79 Sierra Leone mining hopes; Zambia’s smuggling

TRANSPORT & COMMUNICATIONS

80 British Rail challenges French; briefs

Nigerian business has been based on bad habits the country can no longer afford. Meanwhile, agriculture has been virtually demolished. AB assesses the current moves towards a "new economy” .

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