11.   Cotton farmers have been staging blockades since January but the protests have repeatedly fizzled out because of disputes between farm associations and waning support among ordinary farmers.

12.   Concerned over waning support for refugees in Africa, the head of the U.N. refugee agency begins a visit to the continent.

13.   Despite waning public support for their violent protests, thousands of students again took to the streets this month, demanding that the government allow a freer student movement.

14.   Opponents accuse Mugabe of using land seizures to bolster his waning support and carve himself a new image as a savior of landless blacks.

15.   The Bosnian Serbs also have suffered considerable territorial losses recently, in part due to waning support from Milosevic.

16.   The opposition has accused the government of orchestrating land seizures to bolster its waning support.

17.   The mixed success has been reflected in waning support for his government in recent months.

18.   They said this reflected waning support for violence and a yearning for a peace process on the lines of that now taking shape in Northern Ireland.

19.   The elections, called early by Gonzalez amid waning political support provoked partly by the GAL suspicions, are expected to result in a right-wing opposition victory.