41.   The U.N. refugee agency prepared to evacuate its personnel from Kosovo.

42.   Without the leadership of an influential director, the office has been left without a voice as the agencies prepare the budgets, McCaffrey said.

43.   A spokesman of the National Security Planning Agency neither denied nor confirmed the story, saying only that the agency was preparing a statement on the report.

44.   The UN agency has prepared three temporary camps for the refugees and were trying to bring water and food to them, Redmond said.

45.   The UN refugee agency is preparing to organize massive voluntary repatriation of Liberian refugees from May, a top UNHCR official said here Wednesday.

46.   The UN food agency too is preparing projects to quickly re-establishing farm production so people in the region are less dependent on aid.

47.   Volunteers from the Rwandan Red Cross were already in the city, and United Nations aid agencies were preparing to launch emergency operations from the Rwandan capital Kigali.

48.   Power and transport operators said they feared disruption to their networks while flood agencies prepared for rising river levels.

49.   Relief agencies were preparing to take care of them there, but the rebels captured Kalima last Saturday, and the refugees disappeared into the surrounding forests.