Thousands flee fighting in Chad
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Civilians pour out of the Chad capital, as fighting continues on the outskirts, despite government claims of victory.
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Some 12,000 people from Sudan's Darfur region have crossed the border into neighbouring Chad after heavy bombardments and armed attacks by Sudanese forces and the Janjaweed militia, the UN refugee agency said on Sunday.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad government forces fought on Saturday with rebels around the eastern town of Abeche after the insurgents launched a fresh attack in their campaign against President Idriss Deby, the defense minister said.
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Fighting raged for a second day in the capital of Chad on Sunday, with the government making an all-out attempt to beat back rebels who overran the capital on Saturday, Chadian officials said.
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Thousands of refugees fled western Kenya Saturday on buses escorted by armed soldiers, streaming down roads strewn with downed power lines, burnt out vehicles and the corpses of others killed when they tried to escape an explosion of postelection ethnic violence.
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Rebels fighting government forces in Chad said they had withdrawn from the capital Monday to allow the civilian population the chance to escape.
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Hundreds of rebels penetrated the capital of Chad after a three-day advance through the central African nation.
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Thousands of civilians have fled their homes after clashes in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations' humanitarian arm said on Friday.
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Under international pressure to disarm and disband Arab militias in troubled Darfur, Sudan&#39;s government is instead reportedly moving hundreds, possibly thousands, of the fighters from Darfur to remote areas of southern Sudan.
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France evacuated hundreds more citizens  fleeing violence in Ivory Coast on Thursday as opposition  leaders from its former colony gathered in South Africa for  talks aimed at rebuilding peace.
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NAIROBI, June 26 -- Widespread banditry, kidnapping and political violence in the volatile and virtually lawless northeastern corner of the Central African Republic are forcing thousands of villagers to flee to Chad, where the security situation is possibly more desperate, according to an Amnesty...
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France evacuated hundreds more citizens fleeing violence in Ivory Coast on Thursday as opposition leaders from its former colony gathered in South Africa for talks aimed at rebuilding peace.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's army fought rebel forces northeast of the capital N'Djamena on Friday to try to halt a rapid rebel advance on the city.
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Thousands of people who fled four days of fighting in an eastern Congo town began returning home Wednesday after clashes between government forces and renegade troops subsided, witnesses said.
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France flies 150 fresh troops to Chad amid reports of a rebel advance on the capital N'Djamena.
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Red Cross officials said Tuesday that hundreds of civilians have been killed in a coup attempt by rebels in Chad.
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More than 100,000 Congolese have fled renewed fighting between the Democratic Republic of Congo army and rebels in the battle-torn east of the country, United Nations officials said yesterday.