41.   The announcement said that a consortium of non-governmental organizations which assists the refugees was preparing emergency supplies.

42.   The contribution will assist refugees, promote development and provide health care and other forms of humanitarian relief, the State Department said.

43.   The government and the bishops said they both would assist refugees who remain at the Philippine First Asylum Camp.

44.   The staffers work for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency which assists Palestinian refugees.

45.   The UNHCR official said he was planning to travel Monday to the border town in a convoy with supplies to assist the refugees.

46.   The Yomiuri said the camp will be run by Japanese personnel, including those who are working for nongovernmental organizations assisting refugees in the region.

47.   They want to protect humanitarian workers trying to assist the refugees who have had little food since they fled their camps five weeks ago.

48.   This presents a problem for assisting refugees, Rumsfeld said, acknowledging that such dangers are preventing humanitarian assistance from reaching all Afghans who need it.

49.   Germany will send two more relief planes to assist Rwandan refugees, the foreign ministry announced here Friday.

50.   The shipment was the fourth sent by Italy to assist Rwandan refugees caught in an inter-ethnic conflict in the central African state since April.