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2007, 10:24 GMT 11:24 UK Chad rebels battle army in east Chadian
troops The army has been battling various rebellions for years
There has been heavy fighting in eastern Chad along the border
with Sudan two days after a state of emergency was declared in
the region.  Soldiers and fighters of the United Front for
Democratic Change, a rebel group which has agreed to disarm,
clashed in Goz Beida town.  Some 500 rebels, who were waiting to
be integrated into the national army, abandoned their posts last
week.  Some 3,000 European peacekeepers are due in the region in
the coming weeks.  Their mission is to protect some 200,000
refugees who have fled across the border from the Sudanese
region of Darfur.  The ethnic violence in eastern Chad has been
inflamed by the four-year conflict in Darfur.  Correspondents
say 300 people have been killed so far this month.  The Zaghawa
tribe, to which Chad's P