Safety concerns in Chad child row
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European prisoners held in Chad over alleged child smuggling are to be moved to ensure their safety.
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Chad extended a state of emergency Friday for six months in the country's eastern provinces, where ethnic clashes have killed as many as 400 people and raised fears that Sudan's Darfur conflict is spilling across the border.
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The violence in Chad has opened up a new conflict next to Sudan's wartorn Darfur region, where more than 200,000 people have died since early 2003 and 2.5 million people have been chased into refugee camps.
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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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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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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 7 -- Tens of thousands of Chadians who fled fighting last weekend remained hunkered down in a Cameroonian border town Thursday, as the United Nations and aid groups raced to head off mass hunger or an outbreak of disease among the refugees, humanitarian officials said.
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French aid workers are accused of trying to steal more than 100 children in Chad. The charity says the children were orphans from Sudan's Darfur region being taken to foster families. But Chad officials say the children, some as young as 1, are its nationals, and the United Nations appears to be backing Chad.
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ABECHE, Chad  - Chad's authorities brought abduction and fraud charges on Tuesday against nine French and seven Spanish nationals it accused of illegally trying to fly 103 African children to Europe.
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A new humanitarian catastrophe like the one in Darfur could hit Chad, UK aid agency Oxfam warns.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's chief prosecutor asked a court on Wednesday to sentence a group of French aid workers to between 7 and 11 years forced labor for trying to kidnap 103 children from the African country.
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Shooting has reportedly been heard in the eastern Chadian city of Abeche, amid warnings of a new rebel offensive.
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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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Some 30,000 Sudanese, victims of fresh  attacks by Arab militia inside Darfur, have threatened to cross  into Chad, the U.N. refugee agency warned on Friday.
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ABECHE, Chad  - Chadian authorities charged nine French nationals on Tuesday with abduction and fraud after they were detained trying to fly 103 children to live with families in Europe, Chad's government said.
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Sixteen Europeans charged over the alleged abduction of 103 children faced abuse from angry protesters in eastern Chad Tuesday, as a row escalated in France over the government's failure to prevent their operation.
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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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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.