France in warning to Chad rebels
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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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Violence in Chad could turn into a genocide, the UN says, as the country signs a peace pact with its neighbours.
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French military aircraft have been patrolling the Chad-Sudan border to ensure there is no foreign interference.
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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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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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KHARTOUM, Aug 21  - Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail Saturday dimissed a UN warning that some 30,000 people displaced by the civil war in Darfur were poised to join a mounting exodus to neighbouring Chad.
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French officials sought on Wednesday to ease tensions with Chad after President Nicolas Sarkozy offended local sensibilities by promising to bring home a group of Europeans accused of abducting 103 African 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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French fighter jets opened fire against rebels operating in two towns in the north of the Central African Republic (CAR), France's armed forces told AFP.
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France declared it would intervene to protect the Chadian government if called upon and a Darfur rebel group said it had sent troops to help bolster the president.
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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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Violence threatens to drag Chad and the Central African Republic into a regional war.
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ABECHE, Chad  - 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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France's military said on Thursday it had  transported munitions to the Chadian government army, which  repelled a rebel attack on the capital N'Djamena this month.
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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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N'DJAMENA  - A Chadian rebel column rumbled westwards toward the capital N'Djamena on Sunday just hours after the army retook the eastern town of Abeche, a French diplomat said.
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France has sent about 150 supplementary troops to Chad as a "precautionary measure" in response to a rebel offensive in the central African nation, a French Defense Ministry official said Friday.