France to fill gaps in EU force in Chad, CAR
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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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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's President Idriss Deby called on the European Union on Thursday to deploy a peacekeeping force urgently to the east after rebels who raided his capital pulled back halfway towards the Sudan border.
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France said on Thursday it was ready to   send an extra 1,600 troops to bolster a revamped U.N. force for   Lebanon, bringing the total French contingent to 2,000 and   making it easier to recruit other nations.
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France is ready to launch a military operation in Chad against rebels if necessary, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday.
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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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NOORDWIJK (The Netherlands) - Five European states yesterday agreed to a French proposal to set up a joint military-run gendarmerie force able to be deployed to crisis situations worldwide.
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France did not repel this weekend's coup attempt on its former colony as it has in the past, but the UN Monday approved unilateral French action to support Chad's government.
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French President Jacques Chirac may come closer to his goal of meeting European Union deficit rules for the first time in three years in 2005 after Electricite de France and Gaz de France agreed to make ...
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French President Jacques Chirac has opened a French-African summit with a call for Sudan to accept an international peacekeeping force in war-torn western Darfur region.Comment
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France will start flying humanitarian supplies into eastern Chad on Sunday to help tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees and displaced Chadians, an army spokesman said.
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N'DJAMENA  - The European Union called on Chad's warring government and rebels to negotiate a peace deal as relief agencies said on Monday a fresh refugee crisis was developing in the east where EU troops are being deployed.
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ABOU GOULEM, Chad  - Muslim tribesmen in east Chad hope EU peacekeepers will shelter their families from civil war and ethnic conflict, but memories of colonial rule have left them wary of Western meddling in their affairs.
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The French government is preparing to establish a "new alliance" with the United States after next week's election, The Telegraph reported Tuesday.
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The French president sees support for plans that would group nations as diverse as Libya and Spain
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner arrived Friday in Chad on the second leg of an African tour aimed at reviewing prospects for aiding victims of the Darfur conflict in neighbouring Sudan.
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The European Union called on Chad's  warring government and rebels to negotiate a peace deal as  relief agencies said on Monday a fresh refugee crisis was  developing in the east where EU troops are being deployed.
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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.