Le Monde diplomatique

10.04.2008 China is worried that the recent resentment and resistance among the Tibetans could spread to other major minorities whose traditional territories have been colonised and exploited by the majority Han Chinese. The Tibetans clearly want some form of autonomy, which they will not get, says Mathieu Vernerey.

05.03.2008 Chad ranks near the bottom of almost every world league table, poor, corrupt and lawless – and now under direct attack by rebels operating out of a base in Darfur in an invasion co-ordinated by Sudan, says Gérard Prunier.

04.03.2008 They were murderers, rapists, torturers, butchers and their victims in Sierra Leone’s civil war. Now – for the moment, since diamond-funded conflict and chaos could return at any time, says Angela Robson – they try to fight in less destructive ways and resume the real lives they can barely remember.