Chad aid workers fear children's case will hurt image
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ABECHE, Chad  - The scandal over a French group suspected of trying to smuggle African children to Europe from Chad may harm the image of foreign aid workers seeking to help refugees fleeing violence, U.N. officials said on Monday.
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US actress and UNICEF goodwill ambassador Mia Farrow pleaded Tuesday for urgent protection for beleaguered civilians in Central African Republic and Chad, both reeling from violence spilling over from Sudan's Darfur region.
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France prepared a formal request on  Thursday asking Chad to send home six French aid workers  sentenced to eight years' hard labor for trying to kidnap 103  children, the Foreign Ministry in Paris said.
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Chad threatened on Monday to expel  any more refugees arriving from Sudan's Darfur region, saying  their presence was triggering insecurity and calling on the  international community to take them elsewhere.
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Paris scrambled Monday to contain a row sparked by a French charity's bid to airlift more than 100 children out of Chad, a key ally for Europe's peacekeeping strategy in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region.
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N'DJAMENA  - A court in Chad has set December 21 as the date for the start of the trial of six French humanitarian workers accused of trying to smuggle 103 African children to Europe, lawyers said on Thursday.
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The leader of a French aid group  accused of trying to kidnap 103 African children in Chad told a  court on Friday France's government had known from the start  about the group's plans to rescue war orphans from Darfur.
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Six French aid workers accused of trying to kidnap 103 children went on trial in Chad, where there is popular pressure for them to be punished.
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N'DJAMENA  - Six French aid workers sentenced to hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children will be returned to France on Friday under an accord between the two states, a Chad justice ministry official said.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 7 -- Tens of thousands of Chadians who fled fighting last weekend remained hunkered down in a Cameroonian border town Thursday, as the United Nations and aid groups raced to head off mass hunger or an outbreak of disease among the refugees, humanitarian officials said.
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A court sentenced six French charity workers to eight years in prison in France on Monday, after they were convicted in Chad of trying to kidnap 103 children they said were orphans from Darfur.
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A judge sentenced six French aid workers to eight years hard labor Wednesday after convicting them of trying to kidnap 103 children in the central African country of Chad.
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PARIS, Dec. 26 -- A court in Chad on Wednesday sentenced six French charity workers to eight years of hard labor each on charges of trying to kidnap 103 African children.
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A Chadian minister says six French aid workers are likely to go to jail after trying to fly 100 children out of Chad.
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French aid workers were sentenced to eight years hard labor and $9 million Wednesday after being convicted for kidnapping children in the African nation of Chad.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Chilling video images of kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan are yet another red flag for humanitarian groups debating their presence in Iraq.
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DOGDORE, Chad -- The sun beat down on 18-month-old Izzedine Adam, who sat naked and crying on the floor of his roofless straw hut. His mother cannot afford a sturdier home or even clothes to protect him from the cold desert nights. For now, she is just trying to find enough food to keep him alive.