One killed as women riot over Darfur food cut
                   
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By Andrew Heavens KHARTOUM, Sept 3 (Reuters) - One person was killed and six were injured when hundreds of women clashed with police in a Darfur refugee camp in a riot sparked by a reduction in food rations, the United Nations said on Wednesday. The shouting women, armed with sticks, charged at police on Tuesday in west Darfur's Um Shalaya camp, a base for refugees from neighbouring Chad, the UN's Refugee Agency... [read full story]                    

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