Cameroon villagers burn 300 homes in land clashes
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Villagers in northwestern Cameroon have burned down some 300 homes and forced thousands of people to flee a rival settlement in a dispute over farming land, a senior local official said on Wednesday.
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NAIROBI, Jan. 1 -- A mob of men wielding sticks, spears and machetes set ablaze a church where villagers had sought refuge from Kenya's post-election violence, burning to death at least 35 people, including women and children, according to aid workers and a priest.
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Dozens of homes are set on fire in central Kenya, police say, with several people reported killed.
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At least 35 children and adults sheltering in a church were burnt alive by an angry mob in Kenya Tuesday, as an eruption of election violence threatened to tip over into a full-scale tribal conflict.
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Authorities evacuated at least 200 homes as a fast-moving brush fire scorched 300 acres of parched hillside Sunday and crept into backyards, Orange County fire officials said.
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More than 300 people have died during violence in Kenya since a disputed election on December 27, a state-funded local rights organization and an international group said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
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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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Indonesian marines shoot dead at least three villagers in clashes over a land dispute in Java, witnesses say.
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Fierce street battles erupted in a western Kenyan city Friday, leaving bodies lying on the ground with machete slashes and pierced with arrows, witnesses said.
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MAI MAHIU, Kenya  - Kenyan tribal warriors set  huts ablaze near a trading post northwest of Nairobi on Monday  after weekend clashes over access to water that killed 15  people, witnesses said.
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Fierce desert winds continued to propel a series of wildfires in southern California yesterday, causing 300,000 people to flee their homes and destroying more than 1,000 homes in the San Diego area alone.
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France evacuated hundreds more citizens fleeing violence in Ivory Coast on Thursday as opposition leaders from its former colony gathered in South Africa for talks aimed at rebuilding peace.
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A mob torched a Kenyan church on Tuesday, killing villagers cowering inside, as the death toll from ethnic riots triggered by President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election soared to nearly 200.
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Congolese forces used excessive force in  fierce street battles in Kinshasa last March during which  around 300 people were killed, including civilians, a United  Nations human rights investigation concluded on Friday.
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Thousands of people waved machetes and burned down homes as tensions flared over the slow return of results from the closest presidential election in Kenyaâs history.
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Security forces opened fire Tuesday as thousands of angry government loyalists massed outside a French evacuation post for foreigners. Seven people were reported killed and  200 wounded in the incident as violence continued to pit France against its former prize colony.
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Mobs in Ivory Coast's main city burn French schools after clashes sparked by the killing of French peacekeepers.