81.   The latest rebel advances come just days after Kabila returned from South Africa for talks on ending the conflict.

82.   The Portuguese government has asked for French and U.S. help to evacuate its citizens from Congo, as rebels advance towards the capital Kinshasa, a newspaper reported Saturday.

83.   The outside military support enabled Kabila to beat back rebel advances on the capital, Kinshasa.

84.   The radio said soldiers of the former Hutu-dominated Rwandan Armed Forces and Hutu militiamen, known as interahamwe, were trying to resist a rebel advance.

85.   The rebel advance has translated into unprecedented government concessions.

86.   The refugees, mostly Hutus, fled ahead of the rebel advance last summer.

87.   The reported rebel advances came amid government boasts that its forces had made inroads in both the far west and east.

88.   The two have traded accusations of financial embezzlement and power-grabbing in a dispute that threatened to disrupt the rebel advance across the Central African nation.

89.   The U.N. refugee agency is organizing the return of the refugees who have been trying to keep ahead of rebel advances in eastern Zaire.

90.   The Sudanese leader was worried about rebel advances in the east, he said.