51.   Hundreds of international observers are due in Bosnia for the vote but already the exercise has been slammed as unfair and harmful to the divided country.

52.   In the meantime, he said, British troops were performing a useful service in the divided Balkan country.

53.   Afghans offered prayers for peace and reconciliation Friday as they welcomed the return of former king Mohammed Zahir Shah, the respected patriarch of a bitterly divided country.

54.   An IFOR demolition team blew up a landmine found on a main road near the central Bosnian town of Bugojno as the divided country went to the polls Saturday.

55.   Average life expectancy in western Germany is about three years longer than in the east of the formerly divided country, the government said Thursday.

56.   Bosnian Serb hardliners were fined Tuesday for making threatening calls for secession, days before the troubled landmark elections supposed to reunite this divided country.

57.   Defeated Madagascan leader Didier Ratsiraka Thursday demanded a transition government be set up in the deeply divided country, as another two provinces announced their intention to secede.

58.   The RCD controls most of the eastern part of the DRC, including Kisangani, the third largest town in the vast divided country.

59.   The queen said Mandela is faced with the difficult task of transforming a divided country into a positive force.

60.   Wade on Tuesday, fearing such a degeneration into civil war or a divided country, offered to mediate.