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Current Feed ContentCHAD: High civilian causalities in rebel-govt crossfireFighting in recent years in eastern Chad between the government and rebels has usually taken place away from civilian populations, but in the latest battle on 1 April more than 50 civilians were killed and injured. “One was a little girl who picked up an unexploded ordinance which then exploded in her face,” Jan Peter Stellema, head of mission in Chad for the non-governmental organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), told IRIN. The fighting, which took place in Adé near the border with... |