1.   Army factions mutinied against orders from Beijing.

2.   Recent revelations by deserters that the security services were implicated in some of the recent massacres and killings could impel another turf battle between army factions.

3.   Some think it could indeed end in a matter of days with a clash between army factions loyal to each man.

4.   The following month he led a revolt that defeated an opposing army faction and became army commander in chief.

5.   Guinea-Bissau President Joao Bernardo Vieira, who was driven from power by a breakaway army faction, is to go into political asylum in Portugal, officials said Sunday.

6.   He had no further details, but a soldier at the scene said on condition he not be named that an army faction had planned a takeover.

7.   There have been claims an army faction may have at least a passive role in violence.

8.   Two rival army factions battled around Maseru last year, sparking a constitutional crisis involving the monarchy that required mediation by South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana.

9.   An Angolan government source denied Angolan army factions were involved in combats in Cabinda, Lusa said.