1.   He said many of the displaced were lodged in temporary shelters, school buildings or transit centres.

2.   Bhutto has vowed to stamp out the illicit narcotics trade in Pakistan, which has been a drug producer and transit centre.

3.   China is a transit centre for drugs from the notorious Golden Triangle, which borders Burma, Thailand and Laos.

4.   Eritreans have been leaving Sudan in larger numbers than the transit centres and arrangements initially set up for them can cope with, Guirma said.

5.   The seizure comes barely a month after Criminal Investigations Department director Noah arap Too warned that Mombasa was becoming an international transit centre for drugs.

6.   The refugees arriving here by truck were going straight on to a transit centre not far from the border.

7.   The refugees from Tanzania arriving here by truck were going straight on to a transit centre not far from the border.

8.   The United Nations says the rebels are treating the Hutus worse than animals by cramming them into vehicles ferrying them to the Kisangani transit centre in eastern Zaire.

9.   Kessler said the UNHCR was hoping to set up way-stations and transit centres for refugees returning to Rwanda and Burundi.

10.   New arrivals are ferried across the Zaire river and taken by lorry to a transit centre near the international airport.