21.  Ogata said Zairean forces and Rwanda would have to provide security for any repatriation route, along with non-governmental organisations and human rights monitors.

22.  Ogata told AFP on Monday that Zairean forces and Rwanda would need to provide for the safety of any repatriation route.

23.  Relief agency officials reported new fighting on Wednesday north of Goma around Kibumba, which had been retaken earlier by Zairean forces.

24.  Rwandan and Zairean forces were fighting Wednesday on the Uvira plain in eastern Zaire, Zairean soldiers told AFP.

25.  Rwandan strongman General Paul Kagame acknowledged for the first time that Rwandan forces fired across the border on Tuesday and Wednesday following shelling from Zairean forces.

26.  Rwandan government forces were battling Zairean forces Wednesday on the Uvira plain to the south of here, Zairean soldiers in this town in eastern Zaire told AFP.

27.  Tanzania is following with concern the ethnic warring in eastern Zaire, where Zairean forces are battling Banyamulenge Tutsi rebels, a foreign ministry official said Tuesday.

28.  Suspected Rwandan Hutu militia, who are fighting alongside Zairean forces, fired on a UNHCR aid truck near Goma on Wednesday, killing a Zairean woman.

29.  The main Zairean military force is based in the neighbouring town of Lobutu west of the camp on the way to Kisangani.

30.  The incidents indicate that the Tutsi-led rebels fighting Zairean forces are not totally in control of the wide area they conquered from October to December last year.