61.   Journalists have reported violent clashes in the town as deserters and stragglers from the Zairean army returning from the front search for food and money.

62.   Local journalists reported intense lobbying for party posts.

63.   Meanwhile four people were killed Sunday in a Hutu area of the Burundian capital Bujumbura, foreign journalists reported.

64.   Police in Ivory Coast violently broke up two protest rallies on Wednesday, leaving several activists seriously wounded, AFP journalists reported.

65.   Pupils in the capital turned up for classes in the morning, but the teachers did not, an AFP journalist there reported.

66.   Relative calm prevailed in most towns across Niger on Friday, journalists reported.

67.   Russian troops on Monday retook the shattered Chechen city of Gudermes from rebel forces, an AFP journalist reported from Gudermes.

68.   Russian trooops on Monday retook the Chechen city of Gudermes from rebel forces, an AFP journalist reported from Gudermes.

69.   Some journalists reported the hands and eyes of dozens of civilians had been mutilated in these attacks.