The European Union has resumed deployment of a peacekeeping force to Chad - an operation that it suspended earlier this month when rebels attacked the capital, N'Djamena.

As Chad’s government tries to restore order in N’djamena following a rebel retreat to surrounding areas, life goes on in the refugee camps in eastern Chad. The camps, located 900 kilometers east of N’djamena near the border with Sudan’s Darfur, lost staff that was temporarily evacuated during last week’s rebel assault on the capital.

There has been an explosion at an army base in East Timor shared by Australian and New Zealand peacekeepers. Earlier this week, East Timorese rebels fired at Australian troops southwest of the capital, Dili. The rebels are led by fugitive East Timor army Major Alfredo Reinado. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports.

The U.S. government says it is barring 10 Kenyan leaders suspected of involvement in the post-election violence that has killed nearly 1,000 people. Correspondent Scott Bobb reports from Nairobi.

The government of Chad has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the capital and six interior regions, in an effort to restore calm after a rebel offensive.

In Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni’s government has dismissed demands by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) at ongoing peace talks as untenable. The rebels are demanding at least 35 percent of the top military jobs in Uganda’s army before signing a final peace deal.

French Defense Minister Herve Morin is in Chad for a meeting with beleaguered President Idriss Deby, whose government has been holding off rebels threatening to take the capital.

After heavy weekend fighting, Chadian rebels have withdrawn from the capital, N’djamena. But thousands of refugees, expecting another military strike, have fled across Chad’s southern border into neighboring Cameroon. Javier Medrano is the Central African bureau representative of the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) in Cameroon.

Rebel leaders in Chad are giving conflicting statements about a possible cease-fire, while Chad's government is declaring victory after rebels failed to take the capital N'Djamena in last week's fighting. Meanwhile, the president of former colonial power France, Nicolas Sarkozy, has said France is ready to do its duty to defend Chad's government if necessary. VOA's Nico Colombant reports from Dakar.

Rebels in Chad say they have purposely pulled out of N'Djamena, while the government says it has crushed the rebellion and fully controls the capital city.

Chadian rebels have entered Chad's capital N'Djamena and are battling against army units near the presidential palace. This follows a one-week rebel offensive to topple long-term President Idriss Deby. VOA's Nico Colombant reports from our regional bureau in Dakar.

The government of Ivory Coast and rebel negotiators have agreed to name rebel leader Guillaume Soro prime minister under a plan to reunite the West African nation. Rebel spokesmen Tuesday confirmed that Soro has been offered and has accepted the post in the new administration that President Laurent Gbagbo is organizing.