1.   Fighting around the monastery intensified last week, forcing the French priests to leave Mokoto for the Zairean border town of Goma on Sunday.

2.   More Rwandan refugees have indicated they wanted to return home from Zairean border camps, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said Tuesday.

3.   Traveling on foot with his older brother, Eugene was headed to the Zairean border when at a roadblock someone decided his taller sibling must be a Tutsi.

4.   Humanitarian workers and journalists fled the eastern Zairean border town of Goma under fire Saturday as fierce street battles raged.

5.   In the second, a CMB team from Rwanda drove the lorries from Kigali to Gisenyi across from Goma on the Zairean border.

6.   In the Zairean border town Bukavu, officials were not immediately available to confirm the closure of the frontier.

7.   Informed sources earlier said a French coordination group working with non-governmental organisations was to arrive in the Zairean border town of Goma by Tuesday.

8.   Irish President Mary Robinson arrived in the Zairean border town of Goma Friday to inspect camps holding hundreds of thousands of Rwandan refugees.

9.   Accompanied by scores of other refugees, Tulinabo trudged up the twisting path to his village, buried in the hillsides in the Gisenyi district near the Zairean border.

10.   A Zairean border guard told AFP that the border post, which closes for the night, was due to open again on Saturday morning.