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Article: Chadian army, rebel forces clash in N'Djamena
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- February 2, 2008
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Chadian army, rebel forces clash in N'Djamena
YAOUNDE, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- The Chadian army and heavily armed
elements from an alliance of three major rebel groups hostile to the
regime of President Idriss Deby were involved in heavy combat across
the Chadian capital Saturday morning, according to information
reaching here.
The clashes began shortly after around 0800 (0700 GMT) a few
kilometers north of the capital. Some heavy weapons, first
sporadically and then more and more intense and regular, were heard
from the center of N'Djamena.
"The fighting between government forces and rebels began some
twenty miles north of N'Djamena," a military source was quoted by
AFP as saying, adding that ...