31.   Carter also met in Nairobi with leaders of the various rebel factions from southern Sudan.

32.   Carter also met in Nigeria with leaders of the various rebel factions from southern Sudan.

33.   The opposition groups made up of factions from three eastern provinces -- Ningarhar, Laghman and Kunar -- were defeated by the Taliban in early September.

34.   No details were given on the second agreement with a faction from the Nuba mountains, also an SPLA offshoot.

35.   Pro- and anti-Indonesian factions from East Timor Monday issued a joint declaration calling for improved human rights, following UN-sponsored talks on the disputed area.

36.   Rabin has also sought to bring a breakaway faction from the right-wing Tzomet party into his coalition.

37.   Segev led a breakaway faction from the hard-right Tsomet party and joined the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as a minister last month.

38.   Tanzanian former president Julius Nyerere will chair a meeting of two Hutu factions from war-torn Burundi here on Thursday, officials said.

39.   The government has already taken advantage of clashes between the Taliban and the Wahdat to launch an offensive to chase the two factions from the capital.

40.   The families fled Arbil last week after Iraqi troops backed the Kurdistan Democratic Party to oust a rival Kurdish faction from the city.