21.   However, large numbers of fighters and weapons have quietly infiltrated into villages and towns behind Russian lines during the last months, AFP correspondents said.

22.   His announcement prompted spontaneous celebratory gunfire throughout the southern port city, correspondents said.

23.   However, Russian forces have continued shelling rebel-held parts of southeast Chechnya, an AFP correspondent said.

24.   However, most of the arms were obsolete or broken, an AFP correspondent said.

25.   However, in Grozny, correspondents said the toll appeared high.

26.   In Abuja, the political capital, and in the major northern city of Kano the strike was not being followed, AFP correspondents said.

27.   Ikeda was met at Sarajevo airport by his Bosnian counterpart Jadranko Prlic, an AFP correspondent said.

28.   IFOR troops using armoured vehicles Sunday pushed through Croat police checkpoints to allow through three busloads of Moslem refugees, an AFP correspondent said.

29.   In Bujumbura, however, an AFP correspondent said Burundian Cooperation Minister Leonidas Havyarimana and several other officials were waiting at the airport to meet the delegation.

30.   In Fungaya, two people were shot dead and seven others, including three women, were tortured to death, correspondents said.