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Chad Troops Chase Rebels Into Sudan

Friday, December 15, 2006 6:34:42 PM
By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU

World Food Program (WFP) Logistician Lemma Bayissa inspects the WFP warehouse in Khartoum, Sudan Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2006. The WFP feeds 2.2 million people in Darfur, the largest humanitarian effort in the world costing over US$ 1 billion (Euros 755 million) since April 2004, but aid workers warn that people in the region are massively being denied even such essential needs as food, safety and relief. (AP Photo/Alfred de Montesquiou)KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Troops from Chad entered Sudan's Darfur region in pursuit of Chadian rebels Friday as the U.N. and humanitarian aid groups prepared to pull some workers out of a key border town, fearing an imminent battle.

The incursion threatened a new escalation of violence in the Darfur region of western Sudan, which borders Chad.

Sudanese army and police barricaded the town of El Geneina, near the border, to prevent any attack by Chadian forces, a U.N. official said.


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