Gloves are off, Chad president warns rebels
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Chad president Idriss Deby Itno Thursday warned of an increasingly hardline response to the worst rebel attacks in the central African nation in nearly 20 years.
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KINSHASA, Aug 19  - Congo must stick to the terms of its fragile peace agreement, one of the country&#39;s vice presidents said on Thursday, as a dissident army officer said the process was failing and threatened to resume fighting.
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Fighting raged for the second day on Sunday in the Chadian capital after rebels intent on toppling President Idriss Deby battled their way into the city and surrounded his palace and loyalist troops.
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A rebel leader in Sudan's troubled western Darfur province Monday said refugees in the region were suffering serious food shortages and promised aid agencies safe passage if they intervened.
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KIGALI, Rwanda - Rwanda&#39;s president on Tuesday warned that his forces will deal with rebels based in Congo and suggested they may already be doing so, a day after reports emerged that Rwandan troops had crossed in neighboring Congo.
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Chad's president on Friday promised "severe punishment" for a French group that tried to fly 103 children out of Darfur in an operation now under investigation in France and which has also been strongly criticised by the United Nations.
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Ivory Coast's president urges former rebels to start disarming on Friday, but they refuse to do so.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's President Idriss Deby appointed a close ally as defence minister on Friday as soldiers and police imposed a security crackdown across the country following a rebel attack on the capital two weeks ago.
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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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Chad's government imposes a dusk-to-dawn curfew in much of the country after the rebel assault last weekend.
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Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister warned Monday that insurgents are trying to foment sectarian civil war as well as derail elections, while
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Sudan on Friday accused Chad of sending troops into its western province of Darfur and said Chadian warplanes had bombarded two areas in the region.
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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  - Chad is extending for six months a state of emergency in large swathes of the country, saying it needs more time to pacify ethnic conflicts that have killed hundreds and which it blames Sudan for provoking.
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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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Violence threatens to drag Chad and the Central African Republic into a regional war.
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DR Congo rebel leader Laurent Nkunda urges the government to abide by a peace process, as heavy fighting continues.