21.   President Robert Mugabe planned a second round of talks Wednesday with Congolese leader Laurent Kabila in the southern Congolese town of Lubumbashi, his office said.

22.   The Congolese leader accuses Uganda and Rwanda of backing the eight-week rebellion to oust him.

23.   The Congolese leader has acknowledged receiving support in troops, arms and aircraft from Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia.

24.   The Congolese leader accused the team leader, Chilean lawyer Roberto Garreton, of being biased against his government.

25.   The Congolese leader also emphatically denied reports of alleged human rights violations by him and his government.

26.   The Congolese leader refused to attend the summit because the rebels will be at the table, Zambian officials said.

27.   The Congolese leader was due to leave late Thursday for Paris to attend a summit of francophone leaders.

28.   The Congolese leader was in Lubumbashi to meet a delegation of visiting U.S. businessmen.

29.   The U.N. Security Council has called on the Congolese leader Laurent Kabila to grant access to a U.N. team investigating massacres.

30.   U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said that although each Congolese leader had accepted the cease-fire, they signed different pieces of paper.