Government forces retake town in Central Africa offensive
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Government troops in the Central African Republic have recaptured the town of Sam Ouandja on the sixth day of a counter-offensive supported by French troops, leaving rebels with only one major northeastern town.
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GOMA, Congo  - Renegade soldiers have advanced in  eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, taking control of two  more villages during clashes with government troops, United  Nations officials said on Monday.
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UN forces hold off a rebel advance in the wake of a failed offensive by government forces.
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afrol News, 20 December - The weekend has seen the resumption of heavy fighting between factions of the Congolese army in the province North Kivu in eastern Congo, close to the Rwandan border.
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Congolese government forces clashed  with rebels at a town near the border with Rwanda for a third  day Wednesday as the two countries traded heated accusations  over who was involved in the fighting.
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Foreign and Afghan forces have launched their biggest major operation against the Taliban and drug lords in the country's south, where guerrillas overran a key town a month ago, NATO said on Tuesday.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chadian troops armed with tanks and rocket launchers protected government buildings in the capital on Monday after a weekend raid on an eastern town stoked fears of a new attack on N'Djamena.
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The Central African Republic is veering toward disaster, a senior United Nations official said Tuesday, a day after rebels captured a northern town and said they were headed to the country's southern capital.
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Government soldiers backed by artillery and airpower seized a key rebel enclave in the east Monday, the military said, claiming the first significant territorial change since a cease-fire in the island nation's civil war four years ago.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian authorities on Monday  launched an offensive to retake a police station and end a  three-day siege by former soldiers in a southern Andean town.
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The government of the Central African Republic reaches a peace deal with one of the main rebel groups.
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The Sudanese Government has launched an offensive in the western region of Darfur and appears to be preparing further military action despite promises to respect a truce, the commander of the African Union (AU) observer force said.
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Congolese soldiers loyal to a renegade general took the eastern town of Sake on Sunday after a brief engagement with U.N. troops and clashes with the army that killed at least five and wounded dozens, U.N. officials said.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, Nov. 22 -- Hundreds of Ethiopian troops were patrolling a strategic road that leads to the southern town of Baidoa, where Somalia's interim government is based, after a brief but intense firefight in the area this week, witnesses said Wednesday.
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Chadian rebels capture the town of Guereda on the country's eastern border with Sudan.
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AN advance guard of British troops was in war-torn Ivory Coast yesterday planning a rescue mission. Four vehicles carrying a dozen soldiers were spotted in the capital Abidjan as up to 120 troops were put on stand-by to fly to the former French colony.
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Uganda&#39;s army says its troops and helicopter gunships have attacked a rebel camp in southern Sudan, killing 25 fighters. Army officials say seven members of the rebel Lord&#39;s Resistance Army were captured in the operation Saturday.