21.   Brazzaville residents took advantage of a lull in fighting Wednesday to pack up and flee the capital, as a U.N. envoy tried to avert renewed violence.

22.   But Kinshasans, watching rebels advance and the apparent ouster of the prime minister, worry about a power vacuum and flee the capital.

23.   Cambodians flee capital, fed up with rival politicians.

24.   Civilians continued to flee the capital, Grozny, holding few hopes for scheduled talks between Russian and Chechen officials.

25.   Fearing violence, many residents fled the capital Dhaka for their ancestral village homes before the protests began.

26.   Fighting intensified Monday between loyalist and rebel forces in Guinea-Bissau, prompting thousands of people to flee the capital of that West African country, aid workers said.

27.   Government forces killed several top UNITA leaders as they fled the capital and armed civilians massacred thousands of suspected rebel supporters, burning their corpses in the streets.

28.   Grozny sees daily bombings and other small-scale rebel activity, even though it has been ostensibly under Russian control since the rebels fled their capital two years ago.

29.   Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the capital.

30.   In Liberia, tens of thousands of people continued to flee the capital to the countryside, despite relative calm in the capital Friday.