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4 SAPPHIRE MINING - MADAGASCAR : Taking the Shine Off Mat Heywood and Lihee Avidan
6 SOMALIA AND ETHIOPIA: Caught in a Quagmire Harun Hassan and Leslie Lefkow
8 FOOD PRODUCTION IN MALAWI: Wheel of Fortune Michael Keating with Laura Collins
11 REVIEW - PORTRAITS FROM ANGOLA: Painting Peace Alex Vines
12 THE KURDISH QUESTION:Raising the Stakes Robert Lowe and Gareth Stansfield
15 ARMS CONTROL:Missile Madness Jane Sharp
18 PAKISTAN:Luck Running Out? Farzana Shaikh
20PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANIES IN IRAQ:Mercenaries, Misfits or Misunderstood? Alastair Campbell
23 SOUTH AFRICA: ANC LEADERSHIP:Party or the People? William Gumede
26BALI CLIMATE CONFERENCE - FORESTS:Trees Count Joy Hyvarinen and Jade Saunders
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ASSISTANT EDITOR Alison Couldridge
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