Raiders kill, mutilate civilians in Chad
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Marauding fighters have killed and mutilated 20 civilians in eastern Chad, the central African country's government said, blaming the atrocities on militias backed by neighbouring Sudan.
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Chad's government imposes a dusk-to-dawn curfew in much of the country after the rebel assault last weekend.
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United Nations human rights monitors on   Friday accused Sudan's military of dropping bombs on villages   in North Darfur, killing and injuring civilians and driving   many from their homes.
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Unidentified gunmen killed 22 civilians and wounded 10 others near a village in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region on Saturday, the African Union said.
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Chad's violence could turn into another genocide, the UN warns, as the country signs a peace pact with its neighbours.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chadian troops armed with tanks and rocket launchers protected government buildings in the capital on Monday after a weekend raid on an eastern town stoked fears of a new attack on N'Djamena.
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A Chadian military reconnaissance plane was shot down in eastern Chad on Tuesday, a government spokesman said, and a rebel group claimed responsibility. A government spokesman blamed neighboring Sudan for backing the rebels and said it was "a state of war."
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A Burundian rebel movement was responsible for the August 13 slaughter of more than 150 civilians at Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi, and not the combined forces of Hutu and Mai-Mai fighters who have been blamed for the attack, Human Rights Watch said in
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KINSHASA, Congo  - Militiamen armed with guns and machetes killed 16 people and kidnapped at least 34 girls in attacks this week on a remote area of eastern Congo, a UN spokesman said Saturday.
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The Sudanese government is still  attacking villagers in Darfur and rebel groups there are  looting and abducting civilians despite an April cease-fire, a  rights group said on Monday.
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U.N. human rights monitors on Friday  accused Sudan's army of bombing villages in North Darfur,  killing and injuring civilians, and forcing hundreds of people  to flee their homes.
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African Union peacekeepers killed three Darfur refugees during a demonstration, the first civilian deaths at the hands of the force and a sign of further deterioration in the conflict, a U.N. official said Monday.
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Suspected Algerian Islamic militants have killed 16 people in the first attack on civilians since the start of the holy month of Ramadan, officials say.
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Almost 40 people are killed after a Janjaweed raid in eastern Chad in the past few days, say officials.
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Rebels fighting government forces in Chad said they had withdrawn from the capital Monday to allow the civilian population the chance to escape.
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At least 20 civilians have been killed in an attack in the Darfur region of western Sudan, the AU and UN say.
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KINSHASA/KIGALI  - Rwandan troops have killed at  least 19 civilians in an attack on a town in eastern Congo, a  Congolese commander said on Tuesday, after Rwanda said its  forces may have launched an attack in pursuit of Hutu rebels.