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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Kenyan police battled protesters in blazing slums on Monday after disputed elections returned President Mwai Kibaki to power and triggered turmoil believed to have killed more than 100 people.
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At least 100 people died in the weekend fighting between government forces and rebels in Chad, aid agencies say.
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At least eight people died Tuesday in clashes between police and thousands of tribal people demanding government aid, a senior official said.
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KHARTOUM - The Sudanese government said yesterday that rebels from Darfur killed 41 soldiers in a raid outside the region last week, adding to fears that the conflict is spilling into the rest of Sudan. The raid on a police garrison in West Kordofan Province has been claimed by both the Sudanese Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement. ...
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Ongoing clashes between the Yemeni army and followers of a Shiite rebel leader in the north of the country have killed more than 100 people in the past five days, military officials said Monday.
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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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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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Riots and post-election violence in Kenya may have killed up to 1,000 people, the opposition said on Monday as it halted protests and President Mwai Kibaki invited his main rival to talks.
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A former U.S.-trained Colombian army officer who later joined an outlawed paramilitary group was killed in a clash with army troops Tuesday, the army said.
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At least 486 people have died in violent clashes following Kenya's disputed elections, the police say.
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OTASH CAMP, Sudan -- At 3 a.m., Garang Deng awoke to the crack of gunshots and the screams of women. About 300 Sudanese policemen with rifles had surrounded the camp and fired over the heads of the people, scattering them as police Land Cruisers rolled over their huts of sticks and wind-frayed cloth.
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At least one person was killed in ethnic clashes in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Sunday in the latest flare-up of violence following President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election this month, a witness said.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Police clashed with rioting tribesmen yesterday in the Red Sea coastal city of Port Sudan, leaving at least 14 people dead and 16 injured, a government official said.
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A senior Darfur rebel figure on Sunday condemned an attack last week by rebel forces in the neighboring Kordofan region which led to dozens of deaths among Sudanese security forces.
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Army reinforcements sent to bolster the Democratic Republic of Congo&#39;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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Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir say a senior police officer has been killed in fighting with militants.