Official: French helped Chad's army
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French forces transported munitions from Libya and other countries to Chad's army during a rebellion in the Central African country earlier this month, a French Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
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France has sent around 100 extra troops  to the Central African Republic after a series of rebel attacks  in the poor, landlocked country, which borders Sudan's violent  Darfur region, the French military said on Thursday.
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Government troops in Central African Republic, backed by French forces, have launched an offensive to retake a northeast town from rebels, and have recaptured its airport, a French military spokesman said on Tuesday.
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The French Defense Ministry denied on  Friday a newspaper report that its special forces had supported  the Chadian government in fighting rebels who attacked the  capital last weekend.
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France raised the alert level Thursday for its military forces in Chad following intelligence reports that rebels were moving toward the African country's capital, a military spokesman said.
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Government troops in Central African  Republic, backed by French forces, have launched an offensive  to retake a northeast town from rebels, and have recaptured its  airport, a French military spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Chad's president declared himself in control of the country Wednesday, even while acknowledging that three-fourths of his government had disappeared since rebels attacked the capital.
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France's military said on Thursday it had  transported munitions to the Chadian government army, which  repelled a rebel attack on the capital N'Djamena this month.
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N&#39;DJAMENA, Chad As Bill Frist, the majority leader of the US Senate, was interviewing Darfurian refugees in Chad earlier this month, the Sudanese government and Arab janjaweed forces attacked a number of black Darfurian villages just a few miles away
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France has sent a senior foreign ministry official to the Jordanian capital Amman as part of efforts to secure the release of two French hostages in Iraq ( news - web sites ), the ministry announced.
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France announced Thursday it would plug gaps in a European peacekeeping force for Chad and the Central African Republic, with the deployment delayed by equipment shortages now possible for next month.
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France flies 150 fresh troops to Chad amid reports of a rebel advance on the capital N'Djamena.
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EU foreign ministers approve a peacekeeping force for Chad and the Central African Republic.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's army retook the eastern military center of Abeche on Sunday after the withdrawal of rebels who took the town a day earlier in the latest challenge to President Idriss Deby, the government and aid workers said.
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ABECHE, Chad  - Chad's authorities brought abduction and fraud charges on Tuesday against nine French and seven Spanish nationals it accused of illegally trying to fly 103 African children to Europe.
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French forces transported munitions from Libya and other countries to Chad's army during a rebellion earlier this month, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
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(Correcting number in headline from 200 to 400. A corrected version of the item follows)  Text of report by Radio France Internationale on 6 June  [Chadian President] Idriss Deby Itno has deployed 400 regular army soldiers to defend the elephant population decimated by poachers.