French forces in Chad raise alert level
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France raised the alert level Thursday for its military forces in Chad following intelligence reports that rebels were moving toward the African country's capital, a military spokesman said.
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Morocco has raised the national security  alert rating to &quot;maximum,&quot; the highest level which indicates a  radical Islamist attack is expected imminently, the Interior  Ministry said in a statement on Friday.
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Between 2,000 and 3,000 rebel soldiers armed with rifles were moving around the capital of Chad today as Chadian troops used helicopters against them, a French Defense Department spokesman said. The French government said it expected to evacuate 400 foreign nationals today after taking the same number out of its former colony the day before.
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France has ordered more troops to Ivory Coast to protect French citizens after nine French soldiers and a U.S. aid worker were killed in a government bombing raid and Ivory Coast troops fired on French forces.
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France is blaming President Laurent Gbagbo for the attacks on French interests in the Ivory Coast, as it moves to boost its military presence in the West African nation.
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France warns rebels in Chad that it could intervene if they continue to threaten the capital, N'Djamena.
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Chadian rebels from the Union of Forces for Development and Democracy (UFDD) launched a new offensive in the far east of the country, bordering Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, French and Chadian officials said.
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N'DJAMEMA  - France rallied the international community on Tuesday in support of Chad's President Idriss Deby after he survived a fierce attack on the capital N'Djamena by rebels seeking to topple him.
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BRUSSELS, Dec 17 (IPS) - The deployment of a European Union peacekeeping  force in Eastern Chad has fallen behind schedule amid fears that  its French-dominated troops could come under attack after setting  foot in the troubled African state.
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France has ordered more troops to Ivory  Coast to protect French citizens after nine French soldiers and  a U.S. aid worker were killed in a government bombing raid and  Ivory Coast troops fired on French forces.
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Chad's president declares a nationwide state of emergency to restore order after a recent coup attempt.
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MSF :â Paris / Abidjan - MÃ©decins Sans FrontiÃ¨res (MSF) is very concerned about the consequences faced by the civilian population due to the government offensive, launched yesterday, in Bouake in the zone controlled by the New Forces.
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Heavy gunfire was heard in Chad's capital Ndjamena Saturday as rebel fighters entered the city from several directions, a diplomatic source told CNN by telephone.
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The UN secretary general calls for up to 11,000 troops to be sent to Chad and the Central African Republic.
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France will provide air support to humanitarian organizations supplying food and medicine to refugee camps in eastern Chad, a defense ministry spokesman said on Friday.
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French military reinforcements deployed in Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan following a night of anti-French rampages and the deaths of nine of their compatriots in an airstrike.
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France's military said on Thursday it had transported munitions to the Chadian government army, which repelled a rebel attack on the capital N'Djamena this month.