Thousands flee fighting in Chad
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Civilians pour out of the Chad capital, as fighting continues on the outskirts, despite government claims of victory.
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Renegade soldiers battled troops loyal to the Congolese government Sunday, UN officials said, adding that at least 100,000 people have fled a week of fighting in eastern Congo.
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Chad extended a state of emergency Friday for six months in the country's eastern provinces, where ethnic clashes have killed as many as 400 people and raised fears that Sudan's Darfur conflict is spilling across the border.
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GOMA, Congo -- Thousands of civilians have fled their homes after clashes in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said yesterday, although it was unclear who was behind the violence.
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Chadian rebels are pushed back from the capital N'Djamena, which they had seized over the weekend.
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Thousands flee eastern DR Congo amid clashes between government troops and rebels, the UN says.
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Chad's army fought to drive off  rebels who pushed to within 100 km (60 miles) of the capital  N'Djamena on Friday and the clashes delayed the deployment of  European peacekeepers to the African country.
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Hundreds of rebels penetrated the capital of Chad after a three-day advance through the central African nation.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's army fought rebel forces northeast of the capital N'Djamena on Friday to try to halt a rapid rebel advance on the city.
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Thousands of refugees fled western Kenya Saturday on buses escorted by armed soldiers, streaming down roads strewn with downed power lines, burnt out vehicles and the corpses of others killed when they tried to escape an explosion of postelection ethnic violence.
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GOMA, Congo  - Thousands of civilians have fled  their homes after clashes in the east of Democratic Republic of  Congo, the United Nations' humanitarian arm said on Friday.
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Chad threatened on Monday to expel  any more refugees arriving from Sudan's Darfur region, saying  their presence was triggering insecurity and calling on the  international community to take them elsewhere.
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Some 12,000 people from Sudan's Darfur region have crossed the border into neighbouring Chad after heavy bombardments and armed attacks by Sudanese forces and the Janjaweed militia, the UN refugee agency said on Sunday.
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At least 3,000 people have fled more violence in Sudan's troubled Darfur province in the past few days, the UN says.
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El-GENEINA, Sudan  - Sudan condemned a threat by neighboring Chad on Tuesday to expel around 250,000 Darfuri refugees who have fled to Chad's eastern deserts because of a five-year conflict in Sudan's west.
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After ethnic clashes leave at least 15 dead, thousands flee their homes in Kenya's Rift Valley.
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GENEVA, Feb. 10 -- As many as 12,000 refugees from the Darfur region of Sudan fled across the border into Chad over the weekend after a series of Sudanese military airstrikes, the U.N. refugee agency said Sunday.