TURKEY-WATER: Massive Irrigation System to be Launched

Turkey this week celebrates the completion of the twin Urfa tunnels, a major component in a key irrigation project -- the Southeast Anatolia Project (GAP) -- which is expected to play a key role in national and regional development.

RUSSIA-POLITICS: Embattled Yeltsin Walks a Political Tightrope

Russian president Boris Yeltsin is walking a political tightrope as he attempts to forge a coalition cabinet which will satisfy the ambitions of competing interest groups.

An Inter Press Service Analysis

The victory of Imamali Rakhmonov, acting head of state and chairman of parliament, in Tajikistan's presidential election, is unlikely to resolve the political crisis besetting the Central Asian republic bordering Afghanistan.

SOUTH AFRICA-POLITICS: BEGINNING OF WHITE-BACKLASH FEARED /REPEAT/

AN INFLUENTIAL SOUTH AFRICAN RIGHTWINGER WARNED TUESDAY THAT THE WEEKEND ASSASINATION OF A LEADING WHITE THEOLOGIAN, PROF JOHAN HEYNS, COULD MARK THE BEGINNING OF A "NEW STRUGGLE".

SIERRA LEONE-POLITICS: ALLEGED COUP PLOTTERS FREED

FOUR BRITISH CITIZENS ACCUSED OF PLOTTING TO OVERTHROW THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT OF CAPT VALENTINE STRASSER WERE FREED MONDAY, AFTER A YEAR OF STANDING TRIAL.

GERMANY: Five Years Later And The Wall Still Remains

Five years after the Berlin Wall came down, paving the way for Germany's reunification, the country remains divided.