Chad ready to pardon French aid workers
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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 over 100 children they said were orphans from Darfur.
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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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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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N'DJAMENA  - 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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N'DJAMENA  - Six French aid workers sentenced to hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children left the African nation on Friday for France where they are to serve their sentences in jail under a bilateral accord.
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Now that a Chadian court has handed down their conviction, the transfer of the six back to France to serve their sentences appears to be just a matter of time. Mending the damaged relations between France and Chad could take far longer
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Six French aid workers sentenced to 8 years hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children arrived on Friday in France where they are due to serve their sentences in jail.
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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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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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The release of French aid workers jailed for kidnapping appears imminent after Chad says it will pardon them.
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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.