France sends extra troops to Chad
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France flies 150 fresh troops to Chad amid reports of a rebel advance on the capital N'Djamena.
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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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Chadian rebels from the Union of Forces for Development and Democracy (UFDD) launched a new offensive in the far east of the country, bordering Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, French and Chadian officials said.
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France chairs a Security Council summit on Africa here Tuesday expected to endorse sending European Union and UN troops to Chad and the Central African Republic to protect civilians reeling from a spillover of the Darfur conflict.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chadian troops armed with tanks and rocket launchers protected government buildings in the capital on Monday after a weekend raid on an eastern town stoked fears of a new attack on N'Djamena.
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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  - 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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Chadian troops are sent to intercept rebels who are advancing on the capital after seizing a key town.
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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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French military aircraft have been patrolling the Chad-Sudan border to ensure there is no foreign interference.
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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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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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Between 2,000 and 3,000 rebel soldiers armed with rifles were moving around the capital of Chad today as Chadian troops used helicopters against them, a French Defense Department spokesman said. The French government said it expected to evacuate 400 foreign nationals today after taking the same number out of its former colony the day before.
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EU foreign ministers approve a peacekeeping force for Chad and the Central African Republic.
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France yesterday sent a further 300 troops to bolster a retaliation operation against the government of Ivory Coast after nine of its soldiers were killed in an air raid ordered
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The African Union plans to send more   troops into Sudan to reinforce its extended peacekeeping   mission in war-ravaged Darfur, an AU spokesman said on Sunday.
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An aid worker in Chad says the new peacekeeping force may contain too many French troops to be seen as neutral.