■ Acheampoinig’s progress report- In the first full budget statement since the military regime took over in Ghana Col Acheampoinig ■ Bongo and Macias come together ■ Sierra Leone: More opposition arrests ■ World Bank and West Africa ■ Nigerian local government: Backwater ■ Ghana NRC's first budget-1 ■ The Bank on the Farm ■ Books and publications- Creative schizophrenia ■ Commercial news- Liberalise expatriate quotas' plea ■ Dateline Africa- Gabon Frontier dispute settled ■ Nigeria World support for arts festival