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[IMAGE][IMAGE]	[IMAGE]	[IMAGE]	[IMAGE]	The world this week
				Oct 26th 2000
				From The Economist print edition  
				
				
				Guei outed
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
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				After a flawed election in C"te d,Ivoire President Robert Guei claimed 
victory, but was then forced by popular protest to flee. His main opponent in 
the election, Laurent Gbagbo, proclaimed himself president, but rival 
candidates called for new elections amidst more violence.
				See article: Cote d,Ivoire,s new presidentE+
				
				Zimbabwe,s opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, started 
impeachment proceedings against President Robert Mugabe. Mr Mugabe responded 
by saying it was time to revoke the policy of reconciliation between black 
and white Zimbabweans. Some of the former white leaders, he said, should be 
tried for genocide.
				See article: Mugabe,s battle for survival
				
				To general surprise, including his own, Ruud Lubbers, a Dutch former prime 
minister, was named by Kofi Annan, the UN,s secretary-general, as the new UN 
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), succeeding Sadako Ogata. 
				See article: Ruud Lubbers, refugee supremoE+
				
				In South Africa the government launched a new campaign to inform the public 
about AIDS. Over 4m South Africans are said to be infected with HIV, but 
government statements have left many people confused about how it is 
transmitted.
				
				An Arab summit, the first for four years, was held in Cairo to consider the 
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Arab leaders produced a fiery statement but 
Egypt and Jordan both decided to keep their links with Israel. 
				See article: After Middle East peace has crashedE+
				
				Police muscle helped Egypt,s ruling party to dominate the first round of 
parliamentary elections. But the Muslim Brotherhood made surprising gains.
				
				A report by marine biologists estimated that 50-95% of the coral reefs in the 
Indian Ocean have died. Warmer seas over the past two years have caused the 
damage.
				See article: Coral reefs in dangerE+
				
				Kost effective
				
				Yugoslavia,s new president, Vojislav Kostunica, persuaded supporters of his 
ousted predecessor, Slobodan Milosevic, in the Serbian parliament to back a 
power-sharing government that will rule until a general election is held in 
December. Mr Kostunica also went to neighbouring Macedonia for talks with 
other Balkan leaders, after he admitted that Serb soldiers and police had 
carried out large-scale killings in Kosovo last year.
				See article: New calculations for Kosovo
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
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				France said it would extend its tests for BSE, known as &mad-cow disease8, 
after three supermarket chains were found to have sold meat from infected 
herds. France,s food-safety agency also recommended a ban on the use of 
animal fats in feed given to cattle and sheep. 
				
				Magistrates told France,s former finance minister, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 
that he must stand trial on suspicion that he falsified documents when he was 
a lawyer.
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
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				Laurenz Meyer took over as general secretary of the troubled Christian 
Democrats in Germany, replacing Ruprecht Polenz after only six months in the 
job. 
				
				Election nerves
				
				A senior adviser to George W. Bush, the Republican presidential candidate, 
said the United States should rethink its role in the Balkans and tell its 
NATO allies that American soldiers would no longer perform peacekeeping 
duties in the region. Al Gore, the Democratic candidate, said such a policy 
would be dangerous and risked undermining peace in Europe.
				See article: The battle for Florida
				
				Roger Wilson took over as Missouri,s new governor replacing Mel Carnahan, who 
died in a plane crash. Mr Wilson said he would nominate Mr Carnahan,s widow 
as senator, if her late husband won the race for the Senate. Mr Carnahan,s 
name cannot be replaced on ballot papers before the election.
				
				After Peru,s disgraced spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, flew back from exile 
in Panama, President Alberto Fujimori personally led a manhunt to track him 
down. The head of the Organisation of American States, Cesar Gaviria, arrived 
in Lima, the capital, for talks on democracy in Peru. Government and 
opposition agreed to hold new elections by April 8th. 
				See article: Montesinos returns to PeruE+
				
				As Colombia approached local and regional elections the campaigns were marred 
by violence. International donors promised $280m in new aid to promote peace, 
but this fell well short of what President Andres Pastrana had been hoping 
for.
				See article: Election jitters in Colombia
				
				Kimrades
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				Reuters
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				The American secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, said &important 
progress8 had been made in her two days of talks in Pyongyang with the North 
Korean leader, Kim Jong Il. The United States wants the North to stop making 
missiles, some of which have been sold to outlaw states. A possible visit to 
North Korea by Bill Clinton was discussed.
				See article: Madeleine Albright in Pyongyang
				
				Ending a lull in Sri Lanka,s civil war, Tamil Tigers attacked the country,s 
main naval base in Trincomalee, sinking a troop carrier and a gunboat.
				See article: Lynch law in Sri LankaE+
				
				Government troops rescued three more hostages, all Malaysians, held by Muslim 
rebels on Jolo island, in the southern Philippines. 
				
				About 6,000 people marched through Manila,s financial district, calling on 
Joseph Estrada to resign as president of the Philippines. There were similar 
demonstrations in five other cities and his vice-president echoed the call. 
Mr Estrada said he would step down if corruption charges are proven.
				
				
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