Chad ex-rebel leader gets top job
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Chadian former rebel leader Mahamat Nour Abdelkerim becomes the country's minister of defence.
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The army in the Central African Republic has recaptured the last town in rebel hands, Ouadda Djalle, with French military help, a French military source has said.
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Tribal sheikh described as 'poster child for Janjaweed atrocities in Darfur' given senior advisory role
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Former president Jiang Zemin gave up  the top job in China's military on Sunday, handing over his  last post to Communist Party chief Hu Jintao to complete a  historic leadership transition to a younger generation.
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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, in a raid the Chadian government said had been launched from neighboring Sudan.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's armed forces retook control of the eastern military center of Abeche on Sunday after rebels who took the town a day earlier fled, Defense Minister Bichara Issa Djadallah said.
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Leaders of the ex-rebel Eastern Front arrived in the Sudanese capital on Monday to take up positions in central government as agreed in a 2006 peace deal.
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The former interim leader has positioned himself as a replacement for Maliki, but he wasn't too popular the first time around
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N'DJAMENA  - After surviving an assault by rebels last weekend, residents of the Chadian capital N'Djamena are now facing another battle to put food on the family table.
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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  - Chadian rebels surrounded the presidential palace in N'Djamena on Saturday after storming into the capital, and France began evacuating French and foreign nationals from the city.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chadian government forces, backed by   planes and helicopter gunships, have attacked a rebel mountain   stronghold in the east of the country.
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Ivory Coast says 63 people have been killed in a week of clashes with French troops as it hands over military powers to a former head of its northern command, whose appointment is considered a provocation by both the rebels and France.
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Former president Jiang Zemin gave up the top job in China&#39;s military Sunday, handing over his last post to Communist Party chief Hu Jintao to complete a historic leadership transition to a younger generation.
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Sudan has appointed Musa Hilal, a man Washington accuses of coordinating Darfur's marauding militias, to a central government position, a move condemned by international human rights campaigners.
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Rebels seeking to topple the government of Chad seized a crucial eastern city early on Saturday, according to aid workers based in the region.
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A former separatist rebel  appeared set on Tuesday to become the next governor of Aceh  after a landmark election in the Indonesian province battered  by decades of conflict and a horrific tsunami