■ Soldiers Still in power:With Ghana now smoothly entered into civilian rule, the question may now safely be asked what about Africa’s other military regimes? ■ Pearson's 30-year target: Hard-pressed and frustrated aid administrators may be pardoned for sometimes wondering whether their programmes will fail because they will run out of carbon paper. ■ Slow Road to Recovery: Ghana had a trade surplus of 24.8 million cedis in 1968 (imports 314m exports 338.8m) compared with deficits in the previous two years ■ Roundabout: What's happening in Mali? News coming out of Bamake is scare these days, for example travellers arriving in Dakar in the middle of August spoke of an abortive coup on the night of August 12-13 ■ Books and publications: De Gaulle's Africa? French-speaking Africa since independence by Guy de Lusignan. ■ Commercial news: Hackman pleads: Keep politics out: An appeal for a reappraisals of the role the Ghana cocoa marketing board is made in the Board's newsletter ■ Dateline Africa: Chad: New military operations: Three major new French-Chadian operations were carried out against the rebels last week in Kanem. Quaddai and Guera in West, East and Central Chad respectively