31.   A Zairian government spokesman has said Kengo could face treason charges, but Swiss authorities said they had received no request for him to be arrested.

32.   A Ugandan newspaper, The New Vision, quoted the Zairian government soldiers as saying they were ready to surrender to the rebels.

33.   As rebels closed in on the strategic city of Kisangani Wednesday, the Zairian government said it would accept a U.N. cease-fire plan to halt the fighting.

34.   As Mobutu left Pointe-Noire to return to Kinshasa, a Zairian government delegation led by Foreign Minister Gerard Kamanda wa Kamanda met with Mbeki.

35.   At the time, Zairian rebels were fighting Zairian government troops in northeastern Zaire and dispersing Hutus in refugee camps around Goma.

36.   Baril refused to comment on any operation to help refugees in areas of eastern Zaire still held by the Zairian government.

37.   Berkelman said the World Health Organization and the Zairian government had been notified of the CDC finding.

38.   But he said Mutiri wa Basharsa, the Zairian government adviser on refugees, gave no indication the expulsions would stop.

39.   But in an official statement, an international committee overseeing the control of the Ebola outbreak urged the Zairian government to use all available means to enforce its decision.

40.   But some officials and analysts said there is a rift in the Zairian government about whether to negotiate.