41.   Trying to thwart the elections and remove Moscow loyalists, armed separatists recently seized key buildings in several cities.

42.   Violence in Kosovo threatens to turn into all-out war between heavily armed Serbian police and armed separatists of the Kosovo Liberation Army.

43.   Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic began a crackdown on armed separatists in the province in February.

44.   He was quoting reports which reached Kazakhstan on Monday from armed Uigur separatists active in the Xinjiang special autonomous region of western China.

45.   Heavy fighting raged in Grozny on Sunday as Russian troops pursued their final offensive against armed separatists in the capital of the breakaway republic of Chechnya.

46.   In Casamance, southern Senegal, civilians were killed both by government officers and armed separatists, and in Sudan rebels had killed many villagers.

47.   An Indian official told AFP the turnout, despite intermittent rain and a boycott calls by armed Moslem separatists, was a victory for democracy.

48.   Armed separatists have been active in the Bongko area.

49.   Armed separatists have kidnapped two Italian forestry workers in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda, military sources in the capital Luanda said Thursday.

50.   Armed separatists in Senegal killed two fishermen on Wednesday, raising fears of renewed violence in the troubled Casamance province, a reliable source said on Thursday.