Chad kidnap accused 'duped'
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One of French aid workers in Chad who denies abducting children tells a court they were misled by intermediaries.
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CANNES, France  - Chad's foreign minister accused Sudan of attacking his country and said talks expected on Thursday between the two neighbors and Central African Republic would be "useless".
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N'DJAMENA  - Six French humanitarian workers accused in Chad of trying to smuggle 103 African children to Europe will go on trial on December 21 after authorities speeded up the handling of their case, lawyers said on Thursday.
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Sudan has accused the media of allegedly being used to misrepresent facts about the escalating Darfur crisis. The country&#39;s deputy speaker, Mr Anglo Baeda, lamented in Nairobi yesterday that reports originating
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Two self-appointed negotiators who led a bizarre, independent attempt to free the two French journalists held hostage in Iraq were accused yesterday of &quot;communicating with a foreign
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A Congolese militia leader suspected of mass murder, rape and sexual enslavement appeared Monday at the International Criminal Court for the first time and claimed he had been illegally detained in Congo since 2005.
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Eritrea dismissed as "baseless fabrication" accusations by an Ethiopian official that Eritrean forces had kidnapped a group of British tourists in a remote area of Ethiopia.
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ABECHE, Chad  - Chadian authorities will charge nine French nationals with abducting children and fraud, a prosecutor said on Monday, after they tried to fly 103 African children out of the country to live with European families.
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The 103 children French aid workers are jailed for trying to kidnap from Chad have yet to be reunited with their families more than three months after their ordeal began, the U.N. children's agency said Friday.
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Eritrea dismissed as "baseless fabrication" on Sunday accusations by an Ethiopian official that Eritrean forces kidnapped a group of tourists, including Britons and Ethiopians, in a remote part of Ethiopia.
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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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An Egyptian cleric allegedly kidnapped off the streets of Italy by CIA agents in 2003 claimed Sunday that the Americans who abducted him 'savagely' tortured him while deporting him to Egypt for interrogation.Comment
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European prisoners held in Chad over alleged child smuggling are to be moved to ensure their safety.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's chief prosecutor asked a court on Wednesday to sentence a group of French aid workers to forced labor for between seven and 11 years for trying to kidnap 103 children from the African country.
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ADDIS ABABA - Eritrea dismissed as "baseless fabrication" accusations by an Ethiopian official that Eritrean forces had kidnapped a group of British tourists in a remote ...Comment
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Nine French citizens are arrested in Chad over an alleged attempt to fly over 100 children out of the country.
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CRETEIL, France  - Six French activists sentenced in Chad to eight years' hard labor for trying to kidnap dozens of children had their sentences converted into French jail terms of the same length by a court on Monday.