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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Meetings and rallies were held in nearly 50 cities worldwide on Sunday to call for an end to the civil war in Sudan's western Darfur region which has led to the deaths of more than 300,000 people.
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Clashes between rival tribes in the Kenyan capital killed at least three people on Sunday in a fresh flare-up of ethnically-motivated violence after President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election last month, witnesses said.
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Dozens reported killed as opposition leader dismisses result deemed irregular by international observers
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Scores of rebels and a dozen local police and soldiers were killed in an upsurge of fighting in Afghanistan in the past two days that also left several civilians dead, officials said Saturday.
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Sudan said on Tuesday clashes with  rebels in its Darfur region had killed more than 30 policemen,  and denied accusations from aid workers that government planes  had bombed a town captured by the rebels.
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Armed robbers shot dead a United  Nations officer in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region, officials said on  Saturday, the first U.N. military death in the arid region  where conflict has killed more than 200,000 since 2003.
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Congolese forces used excessive force in fierce street battles in Kinshasa last March during which around 300 people were killed, including civilians, a United Nations human rights investigation concluded on Friday.
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A senior officer with the African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur in western Sudan was attacked by gunmen who seriously wounded his driver, the mission said on Sunday.
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Riots and post-election violence in Kenya may have killed up to 1,000 people, the opposition said on Monday as it halted protests to give mediation a chance.
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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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Clashes between landless farmworkers and Paraguayan security forces left a police officer dead and 20 other people injured in a resurgence of violence that has rattled Paraguay's government.
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Army reinforcements sent to bolster  the Democratic Republic of Congo's fragile border region with  Rwanda have clashed with former rebel units within the army, a  local military commander said on Sunday.
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A U.N. military officer deployed to Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region to support African Union peacekeepers has been killed by robbers at his residence in el-Fasher, an African Union spokesman said on Saturday.
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With increased clashes threatening to plunge Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region into chaos, the top UN political officer on Tuesday called on the international community to
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As millions grapple with ethnic violence in Sudan's Darfur region, put the headlines in context with this overview of the conflict's history.
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Indonesian anti-riot police briefly clashed with about 100 demonstrators on Saturday as they called for former Indonesian president Suharto to be brought to justice.