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12 Cover Story Nigeria Elections
24 Special Report African Ports & Harbours
44 African Economic Forum Raising the bar on performance
Editorial 11 The G8’s empty promises
Cover Story Nigeria’s Election Umaru Yar’Adua – The call of destiny 12 The labours of Yar’Adua 13 The quiet man from Katsina 18 Running a tight ship
Finance 22 Islamic banking bestrides Africa
Special Report African Ports & Harbours 24 Innovation brings success 25 Thinking big, thinking smart 26 Coega ready for take-off 28 Djibouti enters major league 30 Southern Africa: Accent on new capacity 32 West Africa: Public-private synergies 34 East Africa: Looking beyond two cities 35 North Africa: Glut of foreign investors
Energy 36 Tripoli set to push gas
Essay 40 How euphoria turned into tragedy
African Economic Forum 44 Raising the bar on performance 48 What is the WEF; what will be discussed? 54 WEF Africa 2006: A retrospective 56 WEF Africa 2007: The programme
Agriculture 58 Bananas – science to the rescue
Spotlight Fair trade 60 Movement gathers strength
Countryfile 62 South Africa: Power from the sea 64 Mali: A second term with ease 66 Sao Tome: Dreaming the dream 68 Liberia: Gems raise spirits
Arts/Review 71 A garden of love 73 Modernising the traditional
