31.   Efforts to ensure humanitarian aid reaches starving refugees need to be expanded, said the letter, copies of which were made available to the media.

32.   Gasana also said his government would see that the rebels in Zaire are told to let humanitarian aid reach the Hutu refugees.

33.   Gasana said the Rwanda government would not oppose an African-European military mission to ensure aid reaches the refugees.

34.   He said the last UNHCR aid reached the town four weeks ago.

35.   He said the unilateral cease-fire called by the rebels would allow aid to reach the refugees without the need for non-African troops.

36.   However, movement by Canadian troops within the zone has been increasingly restricted in recent weeks, making it more difficult to ensure aid reaches remote villages.

37.   Huckabee has asked President Clinton to expand a federal emergency declaration so financial aid could reach thousands more.

38.   In Colombian jungle, little aid reaches desperate refugees.

39.   Jumbe said he did not expect all the withheld aid to reach Malawi before the next financial year starts in June.

40.   Meanwhile, international relief groups complained Wednesday that humanitarian aid was not reaching the separatist republic.