France to begin Chad humanitarian airlifts
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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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French charity workers sentenced to eight years' hard labour for trying to fly children out of Chad to France will be sent home today
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The UN is expected to vote Tuesday on a French plan to send peacekeepers to Chad.
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N'DJAMENA  - Six French aid workers sentenced to hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children were being flown to France on Friday to serve their terms there, a Chadian justice ministry official said.
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France warns rebels in Chad that it could intervene if they continue to threaten the capital, N'Djamena.
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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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France declared it would intervene to protect the Chadian government if called upon and a Darfur rebel group said it had sent troops to help bolster the president.
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The release of French aid workers jailed for kidnapping appears imminent after Chad says it will pardon them.
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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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The United Nations Security Council authorized on Tuesday a European Union force and U.N. police to help protect civilians in Chad and the Central African Republic caught in the spillover from the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.
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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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President of Chad indicates he is prepared to pardon six French aid workers convicted of the attempted kidnap of Sudanese child refugees
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Sixteen Europeans being held in Chad after a charity tried to fly more than 100 children from the central African nation to France may face charges, a Chadian minister said Saturday.
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France will begin evacuating its nationals and other Europeans from Ivory Coast starting Wednesday, the spokesman of French forces in the troubled west African country said.
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N'DJAMENA  - Six French aid workers sentenced to hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children left the African nation on Friday for France where they are to serve their sentences in jail under a bilateral accord.
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N'DJAMENA  - The United Nations appealed for emergency funds for Chad to feed thousands of refugees from regional violence as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon arrived on Friday to pave the way for international peacekeepers.
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Paris - France has chartered several aircraft to evacuate French nationals who wish to leave Ivory Coast and bring in supplies to those who need them, the foreign ministry said in Paris on Tuesday.