French group under investigation over Darfur adoptions
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Chad's president on Friday promised "severe punishment" for a French group that tried to fly 103 children out of Darfur in an operation now under investigation in France and which has also been strongly criticised by the United Nations.
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Nine French citizens were arrested in Chad after a group tried to fly more than 100 African children to France, saying it wanted to save them from the crisis in neighboring Darfur, the French Foreign Ministry said.
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The UN says there are "indications" a rebel group was involved in the deaths of two aid workers in Darfur.
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CANNES, France  - A summit intended to strengthen ties between Africa and former colonial power France opened on Thursday but all eyes will be on a subject not on the agenda -- Sudan's battered Darfur province.
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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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African monitors will investigate reports of attacks by both African rebels and Arab militias on refugee camps and villages in Sudan's traumatized Darfur region, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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The UN Security Council approves a French plan to send UN and EU forces to protect refugees from Darfur.
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GENEVA -- As many as 10,000 refugees from Sudan's Darfur region are dying from disease and violence every month in the teeming camps where they have taken refuge, UN health agency officials said yesterday. European Union foreign ministers called yesterday for the United Nations to ''immediately investigate&quot; whether atrocities by the government-backed ethnic Arab militias against the region's black African ...
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The warning was dire: "The children will be dead in a few months," the French charity said of orphans in Darfur. It asked people to help by paying thousands of dollars to fly them out of the region's turmoil.
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Displaced Sudanese women and children ride their donkeys at a camp in Darfur. Picture:Reuters. Children are being targeted in the latest abuses in Darfur, writes Pamela Bone in Addis Ababa.
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The United Nations new human rights watchdog agreed on Wednesday to send a high-level mission to Sudan's Darfur to probe allegations of worsening abuses against the civilian population.
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The African Union observer force in the war-torn western Sudanese province of Darfur has launched an investigation into an attack on one of its helicopters, AU spokesman Assane Ba said.
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The man French authorities were questioning was identified as Moussa Bakir, a broker at SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©raleâs futures brokerage unit.
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NEW YORK -- Congressional investigators examining &quot;a semitrailer truck load&quot; of subpoenaed documents are trying to determine whether lax monitoring at a French bank that held more than $60 billion for the UN oil-for-food program facilitated illicit business deals by the former Iraqi government, officials told The Associated Press.
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The scandal over a French group  suspected of trying to smuggle African children to Europe from  Chad may harm the image of foreign aid workers seeking to help  refugees fleeing violence, U.N. officials said on Monday.
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afrol News, 13 September - Foreign Ministers of the European Union (EU) today decided to investigate whether the situation in Sudan&#39;s Darfur provinces should be termed &quot;genocide&quot;.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 24  (IPS) - The European Union is beginning to take action over  the human rights crisis in Darfur  ahead of the Aug. 29 United  Nations deadline to the Sudanese government.