France seeks to bring Chad convicts home
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France prepared a formal request on  Thursday asking Chad to send home six French aid workers  sentenced to eight years' hard labor for trying to kidnap 103  children, the Foreign Ministry in Paris said.
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Six French charity workers convicted in Chad of attempting to kidnap 103 children flew out of the central African country on Friday to serve out their sentences in France.
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France has proposed opening a humanitarian corridor through Chad to bring relief to victims of the Darfur conflict, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said here late Monday.
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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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France deports a convicted Tunisian man to his homeland despite claims he could face torture there.
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N'DJAMENA  - France asked Chad on Thursday to send home six French aid workers sentenced to eight years' hard labor for trying to kidnap 103 children, the Foreign Ministry in Paris said.
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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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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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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 court in Chad sets a date for the trial of six French nationals charged with trying to kidnap 103 children.
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France raised the alert level Thursday for its military forces in Chad following intelligence reports that rebels were moving toward the African country's capital, a military spokesman said.
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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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Chadian President Idriss Deby vowed  on Friday that nine French nationals detained for trying to  smuggle out African children to live with European families  would pay for their "horrible" crime.
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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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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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N'DJAMENA  - The French and U.S. embassies in Chad were preparing their nationals there for possible evacuation on Saturday as advancing rebels opposed to President Idriss Deby threatened the capital N'Djamena from the northeast.
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Six French aid workers jailed in Chad for child trafficking will fly home on Friday, a Chadian official says.