The refugees - hungry and exhausted - are camped on the east bank.

Two trucks full of biscuits were mobbed by hungry refugees on Saturday and the distribution turned into a free-for-all, she said.

They also fear, one senior Administration official said, that the food could end up in the hands of the fighting forces rather than reaching hungry refugees.

Balombo has changed hands twice in the two years since then, swelling with hungry refugees and missing two planting seasons.

Relief stations were overwhelmed with long lines of hungry refugees waiting for a crust of bread or a cup of hot soup.

Many settlers fled to Chicago, then a small town, which became overcrowded with hungry refugees.

During late May it was reported that hungry refugees once again began to drift back to their old villages, including Fir'im.

They fear hungry refugees rushing over the border.

But if cold, hungry and dying refugees expect a latter-day cavalry charge to come to their rescue, they will have to wait a bit.

Wedged near her at the front of the wall of hungry, unbathed refugees, James Edwards was trying to tell the soldiers about his bad heart.