Chad rebels clashed with government forces in a town on the border with Sudan at the weekend. "Two officers from the government forces were trying to join us and asked for help. We sent fighters to get these people out," said Yaya Dillo Djerou, of the Chadian rebel group SCUD. Chad's government said Tine was attacked by "mercenaries in the pay of Khartoum", the term it uses to describe rebels opposed to Idriss Deby, the president who has ruled the landlocked central African oil producer since 1990.
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