41.   Imported groceries fill store shelves.

42.   On the outskirts of this arid African capital, thousands of elephant tusks fill metal shelves stretching into the gloom of a nondescript warehouse.

43.   One shelf is filled with porcelain statues of various designs.

44.   Some store operators said their empty shelves would be filled by supplies again today.

45.   Up on the third floor, stacks of yellowed files bound with string fill the shelves.

46.   Now they have appeared, alongside the imported goods filling shop shelves, but the few in existence are so empty they are spooking their financiers.