Fierce battle erupts in east Chad
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Chadian troops fight a fierce battle with rebels in the east of the country with reports of heavy casualties.
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Hundreds of rebels penetrated the capital of Chad on Saturday, clashing with government troops and moving on the presidential palace after a three-day advance through the central African nation, officials and witnesses said.
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Renegade soldiers battled troops loyal to the Congolese government Sunday, UN officials said, adding that at least 100,000 people have fled a week of fighting in eastern Congo.
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Somali Islamists and pro-government soldiers shelled each other in a second day of fighting on Saturday, witnesses said, a major escalation of violence many fear will erupt into all-out war.
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N'DJAMENA  - A Chadian rebel column rumbled westwards toward the capital N'Djamena on Sunday just hours after the army retook the eastern town of Abeche, a French diplomat said.
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BUKAVU, Congo  - Government troops in eastern Congo battled Rwandan militiamen in growing violence between the former allies from the country's bloody 1998-2002 war, UN and Congo army officials said Monday.
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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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N'DJAMENA  - Chadian rebels attacked the eastern regional capital of Abeche on Saturday in their latest strike against President Idriss Deby's rule, and aid workers based there said some insurgents had entered the town.
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Fighting erupts between rival factions in DR Congo's recently-merged army along the border with Rwanda.
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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 seeking to topple the government of Chad seized the largest city in eastern Chad early today, according to aid workers based in the region.
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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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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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Rival factions in Congo&#39;s postwar army battled in the eastern region of the vast nation Saturday, killing several people, a top military official said.
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Thousands of refugees were caught in the crossfire Wednesday as Darfur rebels battled a large Sudanese government offensive near Sudan's border with Chad, rebels and humanitarian workers said.
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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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A Chadian rebel group has said it has shot down a small government army plane in the east of the central African country, in the latest sign of growing conflict.