The camps are organised in villages, as they were in Rwanda, and run by the same officials and mayors. Barricades were set up in other camps, and one report said that a death list had been found that contained the names of aid workers. Yesterday a delegation of Zairean and UN officials and aid workers drove to Katale to negotiate with the camp leaders, to try to persuade them to stop molesting aid workers and allow food aid and water to resume. The same district suffered a wave of looting on Friday and a grenade attack on Thursday on a demonstration by supporters of exiled president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. As it hit the streets of Belgrade, Mr Seselj was already on his way to jail.. Madrid - Kenneth Clarke, the Chancellor, last night won backing from the Group of Seven leading industrial nations for his plan to boost world foreign exchange reserves by pounds 15bn, writes Robert Chote. The attack took place on one of southern Italy's most dangerous stretches of highway, in the southern mainland Calabria region It is frequently the scene of highway robberies..

Nicholas Green was asleep beside his 10-year-old sister on the back seat on Thursday night when armed and masked bandits pulled up beside the hired vehicle and opened fire. The CD is an alliance of human rights and student groups opposed to the government.. (First Edition) Lagos - Nigerian police arrested the radical lawyer, Gani Fawehinmi, after he launched a new party opposed to military rule yesterday in defiance of the military government ban on political activities, the Campaign for Democracy (CD) pressure group said. Then, after a blunder by Mr Scharping on increased taxes, and with a turnaround in the economy, Mr Kohl, the eternal survivor, crept into the lead.Mr Kohl may yet cruise to victory, for the fourth time running, but there are no certainties. Now that the standard rules apply again, even the strong PDS showing in the east may not be enough to take it through the 5 per cent barrier.But if the PDS wins three or more direct mandates, it it will be allotted seats proportional to its strength - even if it fails to pass the 5 per cent mark This could give it 30 or more seats in the Bundestag. The rule that a party cannot gain seats in the Bonn parliament unless it gains at least 5 per cent of the national vote was waived for the first united German elections, in 1990, to enable east German parties to be more easily represented.

In the east, few are impressed by horror stories of Communists around every corner. Although the overwhelming majority of PDS members used to be in the Communist Party, much of the PDS support comes not from the old party cadres, but from the embittered and disillusioned, of whom there is no shortage in east Germany. In the east German state of Brandenburg last month, the party came within a whisker of forcing Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats into third place. The PDS now regularly gains more than 20 per cent in regional elections. Post Office Counters would stay in the public sector.MORI found that 57 per cent of constituency party chairmen agreed with keeping the post office 'together in the public sector' but giving it 'more commercial freedom'.The poll covered 148 out of 651 chairmen, more than half of whose areas are represented by a Tory MP. At least seven Conservative MPs, including Sir Edward Heath, the former prime minister, are known to be hostile.Although the Chancellor, Kenneth Clarke, is backing the sale, Mr Major is more cautious.