Janjaweed blamed for Chad attack
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Almost 40 people are killed after a Janjaweed raid in eastern Chad in the past few days, say officials.
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ABUJA  - The African Union observer force in the war-torn western Sudanese province of Darfur has launched an investigation into an attack on one of its helicopters, AU spokesman Assane Ba said.
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Janjaweed militias have been concentrating forces to the north of el-Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state in western Sudan, an African Union military source said on Tuesday, corroborating a U.N. report.
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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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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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DELLYS, Algeria  - Al Qaeda's north Africa wing said it was behind two suicide attacks that killed at least 57 people in Algeria in the past two days, according to a statement posted on the Internet on Saturday.
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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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EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana has urged the Sudanese government to do more to curb the Janjaweed militia in the western Sudanese region of Darfur, the Khartoum Monitor reported on Monday.
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Sudan's U.N. ambassador said on Wednesday an attack on a clearly marked U.N./African Union supply convoy in Sudan's Darfur region this week was carried out by Chadian-backed rebels, not Sudanese soldiers.
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An ethnic Baluchi opposition group claimed responsibility for the attack today, a semi-official news agency said.
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Chadian rebels from the Union of Forces for Development and Democracy (UFDD) launched a new offensive in the far east of the country, bordering Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, French and Chadian officials said.
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CANNES, France  - Chad's foreign minister accused Sudan of attacking his country and said talks expected on Thursday between the two neighbors and Central African Republic would be "useless".
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GENEINA, Sudan  - Five hundred Sudanese militiamen  in government service disarmed in western Darfur Friday at a  ceremony attended by U.N. envoy Jan Pronk, but denied they were  Arab Janjaweed irregulars blamed for killing, raping and  looting in Darfur aimed at African villagers.
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JUBA, Sudan  - Militias supported by Khartoum's army have attacked southern Sudanese soldiers near the north-south border killing dozens of people, southern army officials said on Monday.
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Angry Darfuris who fled Arab militias told the U.N.'s top envoy in Sudan Thursday they are still not safe because the Janjaweed who tormented them at home are among security forces guarding refugee camps.
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EL-FASHER, Sudan  - The Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) said on Wednesday it had attacked the Defra oil field in Block 4, one of Sudan's largest sources of crude, and kidnapped two foreign oil workers.
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BAGHDAD - The Sunni insurgent group Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility yesterday for planting the bomb that killed a prominent tribal leader Thursday, calling the assassination a "holy operation" that targeted Abdul Sattar Abu Risha for his alliance with US forces.