21.   The rebels also captured the diamond center of Mbuji-Mayi last Friday.

22.   The queen was accompanied to South Africa by her husband, Prince Philip, who on Wednesday visited Kimberley, a diamond mining center in the northwest.

23.   The troops had gathered Monday in the strategic eastern diamond mining center of Mbuji-Mayi, awaiting a farewell ceremony and cargo planes to take them home.

24.   The unidentified Zimbabwe spokesman said the allies thwarted rebel advances on the diamond center of Mbuji-Mayi and the southern provincial capital of Lubumbashi.

25.   They are currently massed outside the diamond center of Mbuji-Mayi in Kasai Oriental province and are closing in on Lubumbashi, the capital of neighboring Katanga.

26.   They are now battling to advance on the key southern diamond center of Mbuji-Mayi.

27.   Soldiers were reported Friday to be looting the diamond center of Mbuji Mayi, seizing vehicles, robbing private property and even raping and killing, according to witnesses.