14 April 2000 : the week in brief:

• Reports from Cairo at the first Africa-Europe Summit more
  
• Warnings of mass protests at the forthcoming IMF and World Bank meeting in Washington more
• Kofi Annan releases UN Millennium Report more
  
• Japan and Germany set to implement 100% debt relief plans for the world’s poorest nations more
  
• Human rights issues brought to the forefront of corporate Policy as British government calls for companies to pull out of operations in Burma more
  
• ‘Free knowledge’: Monsanto releases details of genetic structure of rice more
  
• Update on Ethiopian aid efforts more
  
• Violence and oppression continues in Zimbabwe more