The Observer index, January-December 2001 ... - Microform

South Africa that his successor is a tyrant in the making
22/04/01 B 22 1>7 Photographs
* Banning Shakespeare is much ado about everything in South
Africa where the Bard was bigger than the Bible and Marx in the
struggle for freedom from apartheid, says Anthony Sampson
22/04/01 B 27 1>4 Photographs
* David Earnshaw has more reason than most to smile at the
climbdown by the world's most powerful pharmaceutical
companies 22/04/01 N 3 1>3 Photograph
* The Pretoria Court Case: Why the pharmas gave way, and why
South Africa's joy may be short lived 22/04/01 N 3 1>4
Photograph
* Antony Sher met Mandela in London last week, and the
moment brought back memories of his childhood in South Africa
and his own role in the fight against apartheid - see Apartheid
06/05/01
* Chaos and terror are engulfing Zimbabwe's cities as President
Mugabe's war veterans invade factories and businesses 13/05/01
B 24 1>8 Photograph
* How my son lived as 123 others died at the Accra Sports
Stadium by Cameron Duodu 13/05/01 B 24 7>8 Photograph
* Date set for South African miners' battle with UK firm, Cape
plc over lung disease - see Legal Affairs 27/05/01
* Zimbabwe is facing a tough new stance from its powerful
neighbour, South Africa 27/05/01 B 23 8
* How a tyrant's vicious trade brings terror to West Africa,
investigation into the sinister world of Charles Taylor 27/05/01
B 24>25 1>5 Photographs
* Profile on Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa since 1999
- see Mbeki, Thabo 10/06/01
* Report from north Kenya where the British Army trains with
live ammunition - and Masai children are maimed and killed by
the ordnance the troops leave behind - see Armed Forces
01/07/01
* The success of a TV programme in South Africa and a
Minister's home-made remedy sum up two sides of the Aids
battle - see Aids/HIV 29/07/01
* Sixty white families dramatically fled their farms in the
Chinhoyl area of Zimbabwe in fear of their lives 12/08/01 B
1>2 4>8
* Algeria tries to forget its dark, tortured past 12/08/01 B 18>19
1>8 Photographs
* Tens of thousands have been uprooted in the war on Unita and
aid workers now fear mass starvation in Angola 12/08/01 B 21
1>6 Photographs, map
* Jason Burke's harrowing report reveals the full extent of a
brutal dictator's ruthless repression in Zimbabwe 19/08/01 B 1,
3 7>8 Photograph
* The army of Zimbabwe's despotic ruler will help to fell trees in
85m acres of Congo rainforest 26/08/01 B 20 1>8 Photographs
* Nigeria orders troops to quell violence 09/09/01 B 19 1>4
* Thanks to Mugabe, thousands are starving and economic ills
have infected the whole region 30/09/01 B 23 1>6 Photographs
* Zimbabwe's opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, has been
attacked by President Mugabe's followers 14/10/01 B 28 1>3
Photograph
* Report on World War I flying ace, Major Jack Poole's legacy
in Sudan - his son Arthur and grandson George 21/10/01 B 27
1>8 Photographs
* Judith Todd was jailed by Ian Smith, now she is fighting for
press freedom in Zimbabwe 28/10/01 B 23 1>3 Photographs
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* A Sudanese businessman, whose pharmaceuticals factory was
destroyed by US cruise missiles in 1998, has multi-million
pound investments in two British security firms - see Nuclear
Industry 04/11/01
* The British government is blocking moves to get cheap lifesaving
drugs to poor countries ravaged by diseases such as Aids
- see Aids/HIV 04/11/01
* The Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, threatened diplomatic
action over President Robert Mugabe's threat to treat British
journalists as 'terrorists' 25/11/01 B 11 6>8
* Two members of Zimbabwe's beleaguered opposition who fled
the country after being beaten by Mugabe's supporters, face
deportation from Britain after their asylum claims were refused
02/12/01 B 11 1>2
* Sir Richard Branson is backing the plans of The Red Cross to
market its own branded condoms in Africa - see Red Cross, The
09/12/01
* A Nigerian woman facing death by stoning speaks for the first
time after being sentenced under Islamic law 09/12/01 B 21 1>7
Photograph
* Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai welcomed
the imposition of the US of limited sanctions against President
Robert Mugabe 23/12/01 B 15 3>7
* A Zimbabwean dissident who was refused asylum in Britain
and sent home has been beaten and tortured by local security
police 30/12/01 B 2 2>4
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: AUSTRALASIA
* Pauline Hanson is back from the political wilderness with her
right-wing party One Nation party in Australia 18/02/01 B 24
7>8
* The population of Pitcairn Island, descendants of the Bounty's
mutineer's, live in the hope of bounty from tourism 25/03/01 B
3 1>6 Photograph
* Toxic chemicals are killing the Great Barrier Reef - see
Pollution 03/06/01
* A customised pick-up truck now offers police their best hope
of finding the gunman who attacked a British tourist in Australia
and attempted to abduct his girlfriend - see Crime 22/07/01
* An Australian court is to decide whether the action of Prime
Minister John Howard to refuse 430 Afghan boat people
permission to land on Australian soil were legal 16/09/01 B 8
1>4 Photograph
* Australia rewards Michael Howard as the Liberal leader wins
third term as Prime Minister after his tough line on refugees
11/11/01 B 25 1>6 Photographs
* As Australians battle the fires that have raced towards Sydney
since Christmas Day, one small community talk about how they
united to fight the flames 30/12/01 B 17 1>8 Photographs
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: BAHAMAS & CARIBBEAN
* V.S. Naipaul said good riddance to Trinidad 50 years ago, now
Merchant-Ivory is filming one of his books there and the island
is holding its breath to see if the prodigal son will return - see
Naipaul 15/04/01
* Environmental campaigners argue that the spectacle of whales
swimming freely, which delights tourists in Dominica, is far
more valuable to the island's economy in the long run 13/05/01
B 21 1>8 Photographs
* Report on the helicopter chase in the Caribbean that saw a
British Royal Navy crew foil a £60m cocaine smuggling run -
see Crime 09/09/01
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: CENT. & S. AMERICA
* Two young Britons, jailed for attempting to smuggle drugs out