HEAVY fighting between the army and insurgents in southern Guinea has claimed 93 lives since the weekend and forced thousands of civilians to flee their homes, the security services said. Relief agencies warned that more than 200_000 refugees and displaced local people were exposed to starvation, disease and assault and again cut off from assistance in the region, where renewed clashes broke out when government troops attacked rebels accused of infiltrating forested border territory from Sierra Leone and Liberia. – AFP