21.   The death count dropped, but the warring clans remained unreconciled.

22.   The rest of Somalia disintegrated as warring clans fought for control.

23.   The rest of Somalia disintegrated into a fiefdom of warring clans.

24.   The sources said the ship has been supplying warring Somali clans with weapons, apparently from the Ukraine and other former Soviet republics.

25.   They then turned on each other, and the country disintegrated into fiefdoms of warring clans.

26.   Warring clans in the southern port town of Kismayo have killed at least five prisoners captured during recent battles for control of the town, independent sources said Wednesday.

27.   He said Somalis did not have the finance to organise a full-scale peace conference between all the warring clans.

28.   At least five people have been killed and six others wounded in a fierce clash between two warring clans in the southern Philippines, police said Sunday.

29.   Chechen officials have long predicted that a Russian intervention would unite the warring Chechen clans and possibly draw in other Moslem peoples from neighboring north Caucasus republics.

30.   The spokesman added that the warring clans were now using powerful recoiless rifles.