21.   When, six months later, the Zairian government started harassing Tutsis in South Kivu Province, it set off a firestorm.

22.   Peace talks appeared imminent in the seven-month rebellion that has placed a large swath of territory under rebel control and shaken up the Zairian government.

23.   President Nelson Mandela left Cape Town early Wednesday morning to mediate the second round of peace talks between the Zairian government and the rebel force trying to topple it.

24.   Phone lines to Zairian government representatives in Switzerland were constantly busy.

25.   Rebels closed in on the strategic city of Kisangani on Wednesday and the Zairian government said it would accept a U.N. plan to halt the fighting.

26.   A government negotiator said in Kinshasa that the Zairian government and rebels had agreed that a cease-fire would begin simultaneously with the start of talks.

27.   A former Zairian government official once loyal to exiled President Mobutu Sese Seko says the deposed dictator is near death with only months to live.

28.   A government negotiator, however, said in Kinshasa that the Zairian government and rebels had agreed that a cease-fire would begin simultaneously with the start of talks.

29.   A rebel official in Lubumbashi said Wednesday said their forces were facing heavy resistance from Zairian government troops and foreign mercenaries.

30.   A Zairian government spokesman has said Kengo and could face treason charges if found, but Swiss authorities said they had received no request for him to be arrested.