Things fall into place: news from Africa generally makes for grim reading. But every year there are many positive stories from the continent which go unnoticed by the global media--and 2003 was no exception, as Adam Ma'anit explains.

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Things fall into place: news from Africa generally makes for grim reading. But every year there are many positive stories from the continent which go unnoticed by the global media--and 2003 was no exception, as Adam Ma'anit explains.

WHEN the village of Naga in the Lake Chad region quietly unfurled a new flag on 8 December, it made little impact on the international media. Yet the ceremony, which signified the peaceful transfer of control from Nigeria to Cameroon of this one village nestled on the border, was truly remarkable. In a region ravaged by war and internal strife, few would have expected the long-standing border dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria to end well. But, rather than building up armies and launching into a long and bloody conflict over a 1,600-kilometre border, both sides chose to settle the dispute peacefully. They submitted their case to the International...

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