Maputo (dpa) - The Zambezi River was rising again slowly Wednesday, together with predictions of more rain in neighbouring countries spawning predictions the worst could still come.

''It is a very difficult situation, and the flood-affected area along the Zambezi river in particular, is about one million hectares,'' U.N. Assistant Emergency Relief Coordinator Ross Mountain said after a two-day visit to the country's flood-affected areas.

The top priority now was to evacuate people in areas at risk, Mountain said at a press briefing in the capital

MOSCOW, March 7 (AFP) - Four policemen were wounded when a humanitarian convoy carrying aid into Chechnya came under rebel attack, Russian military officials in Grozny said Wednesday.

However no confirmation of the attack was available from independent sources, and Kremlin officials were unable to confirm the report.

Interfax news agency quoted the officials as saying the attack came as a radio-controlled mine exploded under the leading lorry in the convoy Tuesday, and the men were wounded in an exchange of fire that followed.

The agency did not specify which organisation

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, March 7 (AFP) - NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo (KFOR) clashed for the first time Wednesday with Albanian gunmen fighting near the Macedonia-Kosovo border, a KFOR spokesman said.

KFOR soldiers "injured two armed men after a brief exchange of fire" near the Albanian-populated village of Mijak, in southern Kosovo, KFOR spokesman Richard Heffer told reporters.

Heffer said the rebels had pointed their guns, threatening KFOR soldiers who then opened fire on the gunmen.

Another rebel was detained, while a fourth

Prague, 7 March 2001 (RFE/RL) -- NATO Secretary-General Lord George Robertson says the western alliance is considering allowing Yugoslav troops to help quell ethnic Albanian fighters who have launched attacks in Macedonia. Robertson said yesterday that a decision may be reached this week to allow Yugoslav troops patrol a demilitarized zone along the Yugoslav-Macedonian border.
Yugoslav Prime Minister Zoran Zizic -- visiting the UN in New York-- praised Robertson's proposal, saying that allowing Yugoslav forces back into the buffer zone would demonstrate a

By Allan Seccombe

BEIRA, Mozambique, March 7 (Reuters) - Revered former Mozambican first lady Graca Machel visited aid workers and victims of the Zambezi River flood on Wednesday, urging her countrymen to help themselves to overcome their second natural disaster in a year.

Machel, widow of President Samora Machel and now wife of former South African President Nelson Mandela, toured the flood-stricken valley in an army helicopter.

Wearing blue jeans with a sweater across her shoulders, she stopped to talk to an enthusiastic group of volunteer

Brazzaville, Congo - Le gouvernement français a mis à la disposition du Congo un montant de 300 millions de FCFA destiné à appuyer le Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase (PNLT), a-t-on appris mercredi à Brazzaville.
Cet appui, selon un communiqué de l'ambassade de France au Congo, permettra de redynamiser la surveillance épidémiologique ainsi que la lutte contre la maladie et d'insérer le Congo dans le réseau régional et international de lutte contre la trypanosomiase.

Il complète le dispositif d'aide à la

Maps prepared by Environmental Planning Collaborative (EPC), Ahmedabad based on data collected and compiled by Kutchh Navnirman Abhiyan, Bhuj.
Map based on the primary survey information carried out by Abhiyan  (a network of several NGOs working for relief and rehabilitation of Kuchchh),  Tata Institute of Social Studies (TISS) and Gujarat Institute of Development  Research (GIDR). The rapid assessment survey of  the damages due to the  earthquake was carried out in the first week of February 2001 in five talukas (blocks)

Maps prepared by Environmental Planning Collaborative (EPC), Ahmedabad based on data collected and compiled by Kutchh Navnirman Abhiyan, Bhuj.
Map based on the primary survey information carried out by Abhiyan  (a network of several NGOs working for relief and rehabilitation of Kuchchh),  Tata Institute of Social Studies (TISS) and Gujarat Institute of Development  Research (GIDR). The rapid assessment survey of  the damages due to the  earthquake was carried out in the first week of February 2001 in five talukas (blocks)

There are five seismic zones named as I to V as details given below:

Zone V: Covers the areas liable to seismic intensity IX and above on Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale. This is the most severe seismic zone and is referred here as Very High Damage Risk Zone.

Zone IV: Gives the area liable to MM VIII. This, zone is second in severity to zone V. This is referred here as High Damage Risk Zone.

Zone III: The associated intensity is MM VII. This is termed here as Moderate Damage Risk Zone.

Zone II: The probable intensity is

Maps prepared by Environmental Planning Collaborative (EPC), Ahmedabad based on data collected and compiled by Kutchh Navnirman Abhiyan, Bhuj.
Map based on the primary survey information carried out by Abhiyan  (a network of several NGOs working for relief and rehabilitation of Kuchchh),  Tata Institute of Social Studies (TISS) and Gujarat Institute of Development  Research (GIDR). The rapid assessment survey of  the damages due to the  earthquake was carried out in the first week of February 2001 in five talukas (blocks)