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GENEVA (AP) - Fighting between soldiers and rebels in eastern Chad is sending civilians fleeing across the border into Sudan's Darfur, site of one of the world's bloodiest conflicts over the last three years, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.
Human rights groups have said Chadians are also targeted by cross-border attacks by Sudanese militia. The refugees fleeing the fighting in Chad is "further evidence of the spreading insecurity that now straddles this increasingly insecure region," UNHCR spokeswoman Jennifer Pagonis told reporters.
Most of the Chadians in Sudan are women and children.
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