Europeans charged with kidnapping in Chad
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A Chadian judge late Monday laid kidnapping and complicity charges against 16 Europeans held over a charity's attempt to fly more than 100 children to France, the prosecutor's office in the eastern town of Abeche told AFP.
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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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PARIS, Dec. 28 -- Six French charity workers who were sentenced earlier this week in Chad to eight years of hard labor for attempting to kidnap 103 African children were released from prison Friday and flown to France, ostensibly to serve out their sentences at home.
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Sixteen Europeans charged over the alleged abduction of 103 children faced abuse from angry protesters in eastern Chad Tuesday, as a row escalated in France over the government's failure to prevent their operation.
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French aid workers are accused of trying to steal more than 100 children in Chad. The charity says the children were orphans from Sudan's Darfur region being taken to foster families. But Chad officials say the children, some as young as 1, are its nationals, and the United Nations appears to be backing Chad.
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Afghan authorities have arrested four  people suspected of being involved in the kidnap of a German  national, an Afghan minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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Two Rwandan men wanted for their alleged role in the 1994 genocide are arrested in France, police say.
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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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Authorities in Niger have charged two  French journalists with colluding with armed groups in the  country's uranium-rich north, which could carry the death  penalty if they are convicted, their lawyer said on Saturday.
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South Africa charged two of its  nationals under anti-mercenary laws Monday, three days after  they were freed by a Zimbabwean court hearing accusations they  were plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea, their lawyer said.
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An Ethiopian administrator accused Eritrean forces on Saturday of kidnapping a group of five Europeans and 13 Ethiopians in a remote part of Ethiopia, and taking them to a military camp in neighboring Eritrea.
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N'DJAMENA, Chad, Oct. 27 -- Seven crew members of a plane contracted to fly more than 100 children out of Chad were detained, authorities said Saturday, and Chad's president promised punishment for anyone involved in a plan to spirit the children to Europe.
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France's ambassador to Chad said Sunday that six charity workers risking kidnap charges for trying to fly 103 children to France from the Chad-Darfur border must face the consequences of their acts.
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A manhunt was on in Ethiopia Saturday after an unidentified group kidnapped five Europeans and 13 Ethiopians in the country's northeast, after conflicting reports that up to 20 foreigners had been abducted.Comment
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Afghan authorities have arrested four people suspected of being involved in the kidnap of a German national, an Afghan minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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Five German tourists have been reported missing in Algeria&#39;s Sahara desert, where Islamic militants kidnapped 32 European holidaymakers last year.
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Five Germans thought to be missing in the Sahara are safe but face charges for the alleged theft of artefacts.