In the oil rich Abyei region of Sudan, more fierce fighting has killed 22 government soldiers.
It is not known how many rebels died.
The fighting, which flared despite a recent ceasefire, threatens a fragile peace accord supposed to end decades of civil war.
Al Jazeera's Dan Nolan has the latest.
afrol News - Huge diamonds found in DRC : "A Canadian mineral exploration firm, Mexivada Mining Corp, has reported the discovery of two large diamonds in its 100% controlled Malambani Permis de Recherche concession, located near Mayoko in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mexivada described the first stone as a white, modified octahedron 7.5 milimetres in diameter while the second stone was a shiny 6 milimetre greenish-white coloured dodecahedral diamond. Each of them weighs 0.1 gram"