Hundreds killed in south Sudan clashes: ex-officer
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Hundreds of people may have been killed in the heaviest fighting between Sudan's former north-south foes since they signed a peace deal last year, a senior former rebel officer said on Thursday.
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N'DJAMENA, Chad -- Red Cross officials said Tuesday that hundreds of civilians have been killed in a coup attempt by rebels in Chad.
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Hundreds of people may have been  killed in the heaviest fighting between northern Sudanese  forces and their former southern rebel foes since they signed a  peace deal last year, a top southern officer said on Thursday.
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Sudan's former southern rebels on  Saturday accused their northern partners of attacking them for  the second time in a week in clashes which claimed dozens in  the volatile north-south border region.
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Riot police opened fire on a demonstration by retired officers and soldiers, killing two people and wounding more than 20 on the second day of protests demanding the right to rejoin the army, the head of an opposition party said.
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Dozens of people have been killed in fighting between Arab tribesemen and ex-rebel south Sudanese forces along the line separating north and south Sudan, local media reported on Sunday.
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Hundreds of riot police fired bullets and tear gas Saturday to disperse thousands of retired officers and soldiers in southern Yemen who were demanding to be allowed back into the military, police and protesters said.
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Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir say a senior police officer has been killed in fighting with militants.
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Sudan's former southern rebels on Saturday accused their northern partners of attacking them for the second time in a week in clashes which claimed dozens in the volatile north-south border region.
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NAROK, Kenya  - One man was killed in ethnic violence on Friday when Kenyan opposition protests against a disputed election spread to an area near the famed Maasai Mara game reserve in the south of the country.
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Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga said police shot dead seven protesters in Nairobi on Thursday and more than 1,000 people had died in unrest since President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
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Kenyan police battled protesters in blazing slums on Monday after disputed elections returned President Mwai Kibaki to power and triggered turmoil thought to have killed more than 100 people.
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OTASH CAMP, Sudan -- At 3 a.m., Garang Deng awoke to the crack of gunshots and the screams of women. About 300 Sudanese policemen with rifles had surrounded the camp and fired over the heads of the people, scattering them as police Land Cruisers rolled over their huts of sticks and wind-frayed cloth.
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At least one person was killed in ethnic clashes in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Sunday in the latest flare-up of violence following President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election this month, a witness said.
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Fresh fighting erupted between southern Sudanese forces and Khartoum-backed Arab tribesmen near key oil areas of the country on Friday, former southern rebels said, further denting hopes of an end to north-south hostilities.
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Hundreds of people may have been killed in the heaviest fighting between northern Sudanese forces and their former southern rebel foes since they signed a peace deal last year, a top southern officer said on Thursday.
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Around 90 people died in a series of weekend clashes between troops and Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, including more than 70 rebels killed in a battle in the south and four US soldiers.