Chad 'retakes town from rebels'
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Chad's army says it has retaken the eastern town of Abeche, a day after it reportedly fell into rebel hands.
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Government troops in Central African  Republic, backed by French forces, have launched an offensive  to retake a northeast town from rebels, and have recaptured its  airport, a French military spokesman said on Tuesday.
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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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French forces transported munitions from Libya and other countries to Chad's army during a rebellion earlier this month, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
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Chad's government imposes a dusk-to-dawn curfew in much of the country after the rebel assault last weekend.
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N'DJAMENA  - A security crackdown since a bloody rebel attack on Chad's capital N'Djamena this month has forced half a dozen leading human rights campaigners into hiding or exile, activists say.
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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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Thousands of refugees stream from Chad into Cameroon following a rebel assault on the Chadian capital.
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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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Hundreds of rebels penetrated the capital of Chad after a three-day advance through the central African nation.
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Chad's government told the French military it still was fighting rebels using "air power" outside of N'Djamena, the capital, according to French military spokesman Cmdr. Christophe Prazuck
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's army retook the eastern military center of Abeche on Sunday after the withdrawal of rebels who took the town a day earlier in the latest challenge to President Idriss Deby, the government and aid workers said.
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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  - Chad's President Idriss Deby said on Wednesday his government was in total control of the country after beating back a rebel offensive in fighting which killed at least 100 civilians at the weekend.
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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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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.
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Chadian President Idriss Deby and leaders of Chad's four main rebel groups signed Thursday a peace accord after the latest flare-up of unrest in the central African country, a Libyan official said.