Chad: children's case won't hinder aid
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Chad assured humanitarian groups Wednesday that it would not hinder their efforts along the border with Darfur because of charges that a French group kidnapped children whom it falsely labeled orphans from the conflict.
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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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N'DJAMEMA  - France's defense minister flew to Chad on Wednesday in a show of support for President Idriss Deby who survived a weekend assault on the capital N'Djamena by rebels.
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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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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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Defense lawyers for six French aid workers to be tried Friday on charges of kidnapping dozens of African children said they would rely on international law to argue for acquittal.
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The U.N. Security Council generally supports deploying a U.N. force in Chad and Central African Republic to protect civilians who have fled fighting and monitor borders to reduce cross-border attacks, council diplomats said Tuesday.
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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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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, Chad -- Six French charity workers sentenced to eight years of forced labor for trying to kidnap 103 children from this African country will return to France, a Chadian official said Friday.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's government denied diplomatic reports of a rebel column moving on its capital on Sunday after an attack on an eastern town, insisting N'Djamena was in no danger.
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MADRID, Oct 30  (IPS) - Authorities and civil society organisations in  Spain have roundly condemned an apparent case of trafficking of  children from Chad. But they defend the innocence of the seven  Spanish crew members of a plane chartered by the French charity  L'Arche de Zoe (Zoe's Ark) to remove 103 children from  the country in north-central Africa.
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The United Nations Children's Fund  (UNICEF) on Wednesday appealed for $576.1 million to help  millions of children in countries in crisis, ranging from Sudan  to Ethiopia and Angola.
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People in the Chadian town of Abeche protest about last week's alleged attempt to smuggle children to France.
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France said Thursday it would appeal to Chad to hand over six French charity workers convicted and sentenced to eight years forced labor for trying to kidnap 103 children from the central African country.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's chief prosecutor asked a court on Wednesday to sentence a group of French aid workers to between 7 and 11 years forced labor for trying to kidnap 103 children from the African country.
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N'DJAMENA  - After surviving an assault by rebels last weekend, residents of the Chadian capital N'Djamena are now facing another battle to put food on the family table.