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Owen Bennett-Jones reports from Geneva that U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher has pressured Balkan leaders into a new agreement. The Presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia have agreed to protect the rights of voters during the Bosnian elections next month. They promised to apprehend war criminals and assure refugees the right to return to home...and in an agreement to be signed tomorrow in Sarajevo, the Bosnian government turns over power to a federation of Bosnian Croats and Muslims.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on the growing humanitarian crisis in eastern Zaire caused by increased fighting between the Zairean army and Zairean Tutsi rebels. In the area around Bukavu (boo-KAH-voo), food is running out for hundreds of thousands of refugees displaced by the violence. International pleas to end the fighting have gone unheeded, and there are growing fears that the clashes could lead to a wider regional war, involving the government armies and rebel forces of neighboring Rwanda and Burundi.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that the Taleban militia, which now controls about two-thirds of Afghanistan, today criticized the decision by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees to suspend relief operations in Kabul. U-N-H-C-R said several members of its local staff have been arrested and Afghan women employees have been told to stay at home since the Taleban captured Kabul nearly two months ago.

Robert talks with Steve Boggan, a reporter for the Independent newspaper in London. They discuss the evidence uncovered by the British media that indicates at least one British company has violated the United Nations' arms export ban on sending arms to Rwanda. Documents found at the now-deserted Mugunga refugee camp in eastern Zaire indicated that the Mil-Tec Corportation supplied arms, via Albania and Israel, to the Rwandan Defence Ministry while the nation was under Hutu control.

At least 10 Palestinians are dead after Israeli forces move on a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip overnight. The Israeli army says several of those killed were Hamas members, but Palestinian witnesses say most of the dead were civilians. NPR's Linda Gradstein reports.

Israel's borders with Gaza are closed, and Israeli officials fear an influx of refugees if the borders reopen. They worry that they'll have to re-enter Gaza if the Iranian influence keeps growing. Weapons smuggling from Egypt presents another problem.

The once-sleepy tourist town of Noel, Mo., in the heart of the Ozark Mountains, is now home to hundreds of immigrants and newly arrived refugees, thanks largely to the huge Tyson Food Inc. poultry plant. And since the town lacks the infrastructure to serve these new residents, schools have become the de facto safety net.

Francis has been outspoken in his calls for more global action on confronting climate change and helping immigrants and refugees — positions shared by the president-elect.

The High Commissioner for Refugees wants the European Union to expand its Operation Triton to intercept and rescue would-be migrants, most of them trying to reach Italy.

At least 200 refugees, mostly women and children, have died in the ferry accident near the northern city of Malakal.