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 N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) - The government imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew Thursday across Chad and said it was scouring the capital for coup plotters and their accomplices who were in hiding after days of fighting killed hundreds and caused thousands to flee.
President Idriss Deby called for the swift deployment of a European peacekeeping force whose arrival was delayed by the fighting. The European troops would guard nearly a half million refugees and Chadians displaced by violence in neighboring Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region.
Prime Minister Nouradin Koumakoye announced the curfew a day after Deby insisted the government had total control of the country following a weekend coup attempt that brought rebels to the gates of the presidential palace. Soldiers forced the rebels out of the city Sunday.
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