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N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - A Libyan cargo plane carrying humanitarian food aid crashed on the Chad-Cameroon border on Sunday while attempting to land at the Chadian capital N'Djamena, killing all six people on board, officials said. "It was a Russian-made Antonov plane traveling from Libya to Chad. There were six persons on board. All the six died," a local government official from Cameroon's northern Logone-Chari region told Reuters. The dead included the plane's Ukranian pilot and at...

By Betel Miarom N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad government forces fought rebels in the capital N'Djamena on Thursday but President Idriss Deby said the situation in the city was under control. Residents and diplomats said a battle appeared to be raging in the northeast of the city, where the national parliament and a Libyan-run hotel complex are located. "They (the rebels) are in the city," a Reuters reporter said. "It can be heard from within the city, artillery and machinegun fire." The...