31.   U.N. military operations in Bosnia and vital humanitarian aid shipments threatened to grind to a halt because of a Serb fuel blockade, U.N. officials said Saturday.

32.   Vital aid to refugees blocked in eastern Zaire.

33.   France has already firmly condemned the putsch and said it was cutting vital economic aid to the country.

34.   The plane is due to bring vital humanitarian aid to the city which has become the hub for huge tattered columns of desperate Croatian Serb refugees.

35.   The World Medical Association on Saturday urged belligerents in the Middle East conflict to ensure vital medical aid reached those in need in the combat zones.

36.   The UN refugee agency said Friday Zaire had banned the delivery of vital international humanitarian aid to the refugees in the east of the country.

37.   Virtually all of them are cut off from vital humanitarian aid as a result of two weeks of clashes between mainly Tutsis rebels from Zaire and government forces.

38.   More than one million civilians have been fleeing the fighting between Tutsi rebels and Zairean troops -- and virtually all of them are cut off from vital humanitarian aid.

39.   The ambushes prevent vital aid convoys getting through to the camps, either because they themselves are targetted or because the roads are subsequently closed by government forces.