31.   After the fighting with forces loyal to rebel leader Laurent Desire Kabila, Zairean troops recaptured the entire area surrounding Watsa, a statement issued by the ministry said.

32.   An AFP correspondent at Goma airport reported that Zairean troops were Thursday fully in control of the embattled strategic airport.

33.   At home Mobutu faces fighting in the east of the country between Zairean troops and ethnic Tutsis.

34.   At least three Tutsis and three soldiers have been killed, while four other Zairean troops have gone missing, the relief officials said.

35.   Bizimungu said Monday that parts of eastern Zaire where rebel Tutsis known as Banyamulenge are fighting Zairean troops were once Rwandan territory.

36.   Bloated corpses are floating down the river into Lake Tanganyika after fighting in eastern Zaire between rebel Tutsis and Zairean troops.

37.   But recently, numerous reports, confirmed by security sources, have indicated that the WNBF have been mixing with Zairean troops along the northwest Ugandan-Zairean border.

38.   But Bizimingu said parts of eastern Zaire where the rebel Tutsis known as Banyamulenge are fighting Zairean troops was once Rwandan territory.

39.   Demonstrations against Zairean troops by local people in the eastern town of Goma halted relief operations on Thursday for hundreds of thousands of Rwandan refugees camped around the town.

40.   Demonstrations against Zairean troops accused of killing and racketeering by local people in Goma halted aid operations on Thursday for Rwandan refugees camped around the town.