1.   Kouchner visited Mogadishu port and Baidoa, in the south-west, where he saw French food aid arrive.

2.   It is keen that World Bank aid should arrive as soon as possible.

3.   Arafat complained at the meeting that international aid was arriving too slowly to the newly autonomous areas of Jericho and the Gaza Strip.

4.   But there are dim prospects that aid will arrive anytime soon.

5.   Even if aid does arrive, it is unclear what will happen to the Hutu refugees who survive.

6.   Little aid has arrived for the poppy farmers.

7.   Some residents accused officials of siphoning off what aid had arrived.

8.   Teh Associated Press reported that U.S. relief officials said aid was arriving in Santo Domingo but could not be distributed to many parts of the country by land.

9.   The Palestinians are not yet starving, but they may be before the promised Arab aid arrives.

10.   They said they were hungry, but no one seemed to be starving, in part because aid is arriving.