21.   The Zambian government has not officially declared any closure of the Zairean border which is always a hive of activity between traders from both countries.

22.   Tutsi rebels on Thursday again denied access to the eastern Zairean border town of Bukavu by foreign aid workers desperate to deliver medicines to needy refugees.

23.   Thousands of Rwandan refugees spent the night at the Zairean border Tuesday, clamouring to join the trickle the Zairean authorities had allowed across in batches the day before.

24.   Zairean border guards have been preventing Rwandans from crossing back into their homeland since Friday citing security reasons, said a Zairean military source.

25.   Zambia put its soldiers on alert along the Zairean border, military sources in Lusaka said.

26.   Zairean border guards had been preventing Rwandans from crossing back into their homeland since Friday, citing security reasons such as discarded army grenades along the road.

27.   Japanese troops aborted their first independent mission to help Rwandan refugees in Goma and four foreign aid vehicles were hijacked when violence flared in this Zairean border town Sunday.

28.   Japanese troops aborted their first independent mission to help Rwandan refugees in Goma Sunday as violence flared in this Zairean border town.

29.   Japanese troops flew into the troubled Zairean border town of Goma Sunday on the first mission under their own command since the end of World War Two.

30.   Late Friday a Zairean border guard told AFP that the border would reopen as usual in the morning.