21.   The Chechen Interior Ministry said Sunday that that eight people had been abducted in Chechnya in the previous two weeks, ITAR-Tass said.

22.   The government has suggested that the guerrillas, faced with defections, are abducting people to increase their manpower ahead of what they expect to be a government offensive.

23.   The rebels routinely abduct young people, including school children.

24.   The voracious rebel demand for kidnap victims has spawned criminal gangs who abduct people and sell them to the guerrillas or work on contract for the rebels.

25.   Two rebel groups in the northwest and the north are carrying out insurgencies against government troops and attacking villages and abducting people.

26.   His rebels have been ambushing road traffic in the region, abducting people and marching them to their jungle bases.

27.   According to the radio, the LRA fighters have been abducting people and looting food and property from villagers.

28.   Another group of raiders believed to belong to same rebel movement attacked Iceme trading centre south east of Gulu town on Monday, looting shops and abducting several people.

29.   Earlier Friday, the rebels abducted three people from a bus and shot dead two of them.

30.   Schools in those areas were closed after unknown Angolan gunmen crossed into Zambia, abducted several people and destroyed their houses, prompting civilian teachers to flee the area.