News stories by IPS Correspondents, page 63

NAIROBI, Nov 22 (IPS) - TORRENTIAL RAINS FOLLOWING SATURDAY'S CYCLONE BROUGHT THE DEATH TOLL TO 58 PEOPLE AND LEFT THOUSANDS HOMELESS IN AFRICA'S HORN COUNTRIES OF SOMALIA AND DJIBOUTI.

MAPUTO, Nov 22 (IPS) - FROM THE REMNANTS OF TWO FORMER OPPOSING ARMIES, ONE UNIFIED FORCE HAS BEEN BORN IN MOZAMBIQUE. BUT THE PROCESS OF INTEGRATION AFTER MORE THAN 30 YEARS OF WAR IS PROVING DIFFICULT.

MOSCOW, Nov 21 (IPS) - According to Moscow newspaper reports some 70-90,000 Russian scientists and academics left the country in 1993 to emigrate or simply to take up highly paid contractual positions overseas.

BELGRADE, Nov 21 (IPS) - Serbia's main independent daily newspaper the 'Borba' is in danger of being banned after a legal challenge by the government against its holding company saying the paper had never been properly registered.

HONG KONG, Nov 21 (IPS) - A U.N. human rights committee Monday begins examining a British report on human rights in Hong Kong, amid growing concern here that the obligation to report to the world body will be dropped after the colony's 1997 handover to China.

DHAKA, Nov 21 (IPS) - THE BREAKDOWN OF A COMMONWEALTH-BROKERED DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND THE OPPOSITION IN THIS TURBULENT SOUTH ASIAN COUNTRY SIGNALS POLITICAL ANARCHY AND CHAOS FOR ITS 120 MILLION PEOPLE, ANALYSTS SAY.

NATATA, INDIA, Nov 21 (IPS) - THE WINDING VILLAGE ROAD DISAPPEARS INTO A SEA OF SANDY MUD AS A VISITOR NEARS THIS HAMLET, TUCKED AWAY IN THE ARID COUNTRYSIDE IN INDIA'S WESTERN, DESERT STATE OF RAJASTHAN.

BONN, Nov 20 (IPS) - Germany's new government led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl plans to intensify development cooperation with the needy countries of central and eastern Europe, according to an official policy document newly published here.

DRESDEN, Germany, Nov 20 (IPS) - A new "social contract" between the state and the poor to alleviate poverty is being pushed by eminent South Asian expert Punna Wignaraja.

WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (IPS) - A U.S. human rights body is urging the government of Jamaica to immediately release all children from police lock-ups whose conditions the agency describes as appalling.