51.   Efforts in South Africa to halt the fighting were blocked when Congolese government officials rejected a cease-fire proposed by President Nelson Mandela.

52.   He added that once a cease-fire was signed the Congolese government would accept the deployment of a multinational force.

53.   He said the world court may rule that Belgium cannot prosecute Yerodia Ndombasi because he enjoyed immunity as a government official, the argument stressed by Congolese government lawyers.

54.   He said the Congolese government would make an announcement early Wednesday, but the news conference did not take place at the time he promised.

55.   He said they also captured its strategic airport, used by the Congolese government and its allies to bomb rebel positions.

56.   Hoping to stem the fighting, foreign ministers from Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Namibia were in Kinshasa on Saturday to meet with Congolese government officials.

57.   Human rights groups have complained about Uganda harboring Congolese child soldiers, and the Congolese government accused the Ugandan army of kidnapping them.

58.   In recent weeks, a series of Congolese government orders have effectively blocked UNHCR from helping refugees in eastern Congo.

59.   It also said it found forensic evidence of Congolese government attempts to cover up the massacres by removing bodies from a mass grave at Mbandaka.

60.   It was not clear who represented the Congolese government at the Lusaka meetings that were headed by Zambian presidential affairs minister Eric Silwamba.