1.   Civilians flee as factions battle in Monrovia.

2.   International aid workers were planning Sunday to evacuate the beleaguered northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif after rival factions waged street battles in several neighborhoods.

3.   Doctors joining the strike are refusing to treat casualties with bullet wounds who turn up regularly on hospital wards as rival religious and ethnic factions battle in the streets.

4.   Reliable sources said that regions in the provinces, which have also been wracked by faction battles, remained tense on Monday.