Rebels, army forces spar in eastern Chad
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Fighting broke out early Saturday between the national army and rebels in a volatile region of eastern Chad, and rebels claimed they had seized the major city in the area.
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Hundreds of civilians have died in fierce fighting between rebels and government forces in Chad's capital, Red Cross officials said Tuesday, as the insurgents agreed to a cease-fire and their momentum faded. Former colonial power France threatened to enter the fight to support the government.
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Congo's government spokesman denied Tuesday that rival army factions were fighting each other in the east of the country and insisted the clashes were between Congolese and Rwandan forces.
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N'DJAMENA  - Rebels fighting to overthrow Chad's President Idriss Deby attacked the eastern town of Adre on the border with Darfur on Thursday and the Chadian government said the raiders came from neighboring Sudan.
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Heavily armed Chadian soldiers reinforced their positions in the capital on Monday, girding for attack after a rebel convoy was spotted heading toward the capital of this volatile central African nation.
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BUKAVU, Congo  - Rival factions of Congo's army battled in the eastern region of the vast country Saturday, killing several people, a top military official said.
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Troops loyal to a renegade Congo general attacked army forces Tuesday in eastern Congo, re-igniting fighting after a week of relative calm in the restive region, officials said.
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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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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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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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N'DJAMENA  - Troops loyal to Chad's president drove back rebels besieging his palace on Sunday, the government said, adding it had repulsed an assault by Sudanese forces in the east that it called "a declaration of war".
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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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Violence threatens to drag Chad and the Central African Republic into a regional war.
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for the front line in eastern Congo to stop renegade soldiers advancing further after more than a week of fighting. between the towns of Kanyabayonga and Lubero to keep rebels and loyal troops apart.
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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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N'DJAMENA  - Chadian rebels said on Tuesday they shot down a government military plane with a captured ground-to-air missile in fighting near the eastern town of Abeche, which they briefly seized at the weekend.
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NEAR ABECHE, Chad -- The Chadian government and its allied militias are indiscriminately targeting Arab nomads in eastern Chad, according to interviews with dozens of nomads, who described raids on their temporary villages, at least two aerial bombings, harassment and incidents of torture over the...