Tainted data hide the cost if Africa's upheavals
25 May 2009
Even by Africa's grim standars, it was a horrendous statistic: 5.4m peiple have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo from "war-related causes since 1998", claimed the International Rescue Committee in january last year.
Debt and Africa's poor: the World Bank relents
1 September 1995
Michael Holman reports on a 180-degree policy shift on how to cope with the continent's $160bn debt mountin.