51.   Women and children fled new fighting in southwest Kosovo, witnesses said Saturday, while ethnic Albanians in the provincial capital boarded buses for the countryside fearing NATO airstrikes.

52.   Hundreds of refugees were early Monday continuing to flee fighting between two rival factions near a key town in northern Afghanistan, sources from the area reported.

53.   A German aid group Monday reported the first cases of cholera to have broken out among the hundreds of thousands who have fled fighting which broke out in September.

54.   Around half a million people, mainly Rwandan Hutu refugees, have fled fighting between Tutsi rebels and Zairean government forces in the border region with Rwanda.

55.   Around half of them fled fighting elsewhere in eastern Zaire.

56.   The refugees are fleeing fighting between government forces and rebels in eastern Zaire.

57.   The pact calls for the return of refugees who fled fighting, and urges the transitional authority to establish telephone service, post offices, banks and other institutions.

58.   The refugees, mainly Hutus from Rwanda, have fled fighting between Zairean troops and Tutsi rebels who have seized three towns.

59.   The town, which had a wafer-thin non-Serb majority before the war is swamped with thousands of refugees who have fled fighting to the west and south.

60.   Thousands of refugees have fled fighting in Monrovia aboard fishing vessels and freighters in recent days.