France sends more troops to Chad
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The European Union postponed the deployment of advance units of a peacekeeping force for protecting refugees from Darfur because of an upsurge of rebel activity in neighboring Chad, where France was reinforcing its troops on the ground.
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EU foreign ministers approve a peacekeeping force for Chad and the Central African Republic.
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Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno has assured France a charity's bid to fly 100 children from the country will not hinder the deployment of an EU force on the Darfur border, a French minister said Monday.
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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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Germany sends three planes to Sudan's troubled Darfur region to help deploy more African Union troops.
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The UN mission says it needs extra troops to continue to maintain order in Ivory Coast which has seen renewed fighting between rival factions.
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The French military has set up a forward base in Togo to allow it to have aircraft within easy reach of Ivory Coast, which saw a sudden escalation in its two-year-old civil war last week, officials said here ...
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France is blaming President Laurent Gbagbo for the attacks on French interests in the Ivory Coast, as it moves to boost its military presence in the West African nation.
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NATO allies agreed to expand the alliance&#39;s training mission for Iraq&#39;s armed forces after allaying French concerns that had delayed the plan for a week.
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France will provide air support to humanitarian organizations supplying food and medicine to refugee camps in eastern Chad, a defense ministry spokesman said on Friday.
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The African Union is to begin  deploying more than 3,000 additional troops to Sudan's Darfur  region within the next two weeks, the head of the 53-member  organization's security organ said Wednesday.
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French military reinforcements deployed in Ivory Coast&#39;s economic capital Abidjan on Sunday following a night of anti-French rampages and the deaths of nine of their compatriots in an air strike.
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Chad's rebels on Monday urged  European Union member states not to send peacekeeping troops to  the country's east, saying the force would not be neutral  because it was dominated by France.
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French military reinforcements deployed in Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan following a night of anti-French rampages and the deaths of nine of their compatriots in an airstrike.
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France is pushing for an aid corridor into Sudan's Darfur region as a solution to the crisis at the G8.
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More Sudanese refugees flee across the border into Chad following reports of renewed violence in the Darfur region.
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France introduced a Security Council resolution Thursday that would increase the U.N. force in Congo by 5,900 troops, less than half the amount requested by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.