Chad Decries Plan to Uproot 103 Children
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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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The UN secretary general calls for up to 11,000 troops to be sent to Chad and the Central African Republic.
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A group of French charity workers, condemned at home for an attempt to fly more than 100 children to France from the Chad-Darfur border, awaited a decision Monday from the Chadian authorities on whether to press kidnapping charges.
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Sudanese cross-border raiders have massacred more than 100 villagers in Chad, Human Rights Watch alleged Thursday, expressing concern Darfur&#039;s violence was spreading.
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N'DJAMENA  - Six French aid workers sentenced to hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children flew out of the African nation on Friday bound for France where they are due to serve their sentences in jail.
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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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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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Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno has assured France a charity's bid to fly 100 children from the country will not hinder the deployment of an EU force on the Darfur border, a French minister said Monday.
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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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Chad's president says he is ready to pardon French aid workers jailed for abducting children from his country.
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A French organization whose  members were arrested in Chad as they prepared to fly 103  children to France said on Monday they were trying to help the  children, not abduct them, and they acted legally.
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Chad's president said Thursday he hopes his country's judicial system will quickly free journalists and an air crew detained in connection with a French charity that was trying to fly children it claimed were orphans from Darfur to Europe.
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Chad's president said Thursday he was "ready to pardon" six French aid workers convicted in December of trying to kidnap more than 100 children they said were orphans from Darfur.
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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  - The United Nations appealed for emergency funds for Chad to feed thousands of refugees from regional violence as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon arrived on Friday to pave the way for international peacekeepers.
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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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ABECHE, Chad  - Toys were scattered on the floor and dozens of drawings stuck to the walls of a compound where Chadian officials say nine French citizens kept dozens of children they intended to smuggle to Europe.