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Sudan puts heat on France, agencies over children row
Topix - Wednesday, November 21, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The question is why these children were being taken to the West? Perhaps to provide organs such as hearts and kidneys to elderly patients" Aid agencies and French interests in Sudan are coming under intense pressure over a plot to abduct 103 Darfur children from neighbouring... more
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Cabinet gives approval for deployment of troops to Chad
Topix - Tuesday, November 20, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We will not surrender and we will not retreat." The Minister for Defence today secured Cabinet approval for the deployment of 400 Irish troops for the UN-mandated EU military operation in the Republic of Chad. via BreakingNews.ie ... more
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Chad case part of vast child abduction plot- Sudan
Topix - Tuesday, November 20, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"In March, April, May, the authorities of France gave advance visas and gave permission for the plane to take these children to France" Sudan added to the international row over Zoe's Ark Friday, accusing Paris of having furnished visas to the French charity to fly 103... more
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Chad to tighten charity controls
Topix - Monday, November 19, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We will take a census to know who is here legitimately and to ask those who are not to put their papers in order" There have been regular protests against the child abductions Chad is to review the credentials of all aid agencies operating following an... more
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Charity case casts bleak spotlight on Chadian justice
Topix - Sunday, November 18, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"A number of the cases that we get are very serious ones: murders, assassinations, rapes, kidnappings" The local court that first took on a tangled child abduction scandal involving a French charity is a bare-bones affair: a single prosecutor, no clerk, no computers -- and no... more
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Chadian foreign minister welcomes EU force for eastern Chad
Topix - Friday, November 16, 2007
p> N'DJAMENA, Chad : Chad's foreign minister welcomed an Irish-led - but largely French - EU peacekeeping force for parts of his country affected by fighting in Sudan's Darfur, saying Thursday that the troops ... via International Herald Tribune ... more
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French group denies abducting Chad children -paper
Topix - Thursday, November 15, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"If we were misled ... nobody in the organisation knew. We always acted in good faith." French humanitarian activists charged with abducting children from Chad have told a judge there they may have been misled over the children's nationality by village chiefs and denied deliberately breaking... more
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Anti-French riot erupts in Chad
Topix - Wednesday, November 14, 2007
p> There have been regular protests against the child abductions Several thousand students have held violent anti-French protests in Chad. via BBC ... more
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Zoe's Ark case seen hindering U.N. work in Chad
Topix - Tuesday, November 13, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"For the moment, there is certainly a negative impact because the local population has become very suspicious. "But I think in the long term the situation will calm down ... and I think things will improve fairly soon." The deputy head of the U.N. refugee agency... more
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Ahern in Chad ahead of army mission
Topix - Tuesday, November 13, 2007
p> Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern today begins a four-day visit to Chad and Sudan before 350 Irish troops are deployed there next month. via The Irish Times ... more
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Belgian arrives home after Chad detention
Topix - Monday, November 12, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"I am happy to be going back, but part of my heart will always remain with you (here)." A 74-year-old Belgian pilot, who was detained in Chad over an attempt to fly 103 African children to Europe, has arrived home military jet. via Stuff ... more
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Chad 7: 'Captor' in hospital
Topix - Monday, November 12, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"She took her medications. I didn't have time to ask her questions but things are better now" N'Djamena - One of six imprisoned members of a French charity that tried to fly 103 children from Chad to France was admitted to hospital on Sunday for an... more
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Death toll in Italy crash climbs to 6
Topix - Sunday, November 11, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The CEC has decided that the presidential elections will be held on February 19 according to the country's constitution" A U.S. service member died overnight in a northern Italian hospital, bringing to six the number killed in the crash of a U.S. Army helicopter, officials said... more
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European pilot, air crew released in Chad 'Darfur orphans' airlift case
Topix - Sunday, November 11, 2007
p> Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos [official profile] praised Chadian officials, including President Idriss Deby [IRIN news profile], for their smooth handling of the situation and said that Spain ... via Jurist ... more
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Pambazuka News: Blogging Africa
Topix - Sunday, November 11, 2007
p> Review of African Blogs, 2007-11-08 By Dibussi Tande Chika Okeke-Agulu comments on the death of pioneer Nigerian novelist Cyprian Ekwensi: I am deeply saddened by this news of the death of the pioneer Nigerian ... via WorldChanging ... more
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French Kidnapping In Chad
Topix - Saturday, November 10, 2007
p> The kidnapping of children in Chad by machinations of a so-called French non-governmental humanitarian society called L'Arche de Zoe or Zoe's Arc is the focus of global mass media attention, particularly the ... via Iran Daily ... more
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Chad Frees Spanish Air Crew, Belgian Pilot
Topix - Saturday, November 10, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The first moments were very difficult, we were uncertain of what was happening" Chadian gendarmes stand guard at one of the gates of the jail in N'Djamena on November 9, 2007. via The Epoch Times ... more
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Scandal in Chad Raises Adoption Debate
Topix - Saturday, November 10, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Poverty, conflict or whatever you want, should not be a reason to remove a [child] from his natural environment and send him away and think he is better off" An ongoing scandal over attempts to put African childrenup for adoption overseas amid questions of where the... more
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The French Berlusconi
Topix - Friday, November 09, 2007
p> Jonathan Steele: Nicolas Sarkozy may fast make a name for himself on the world stage. via Buzzle.com ... more
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CHAD: Govt accused of hypocrisy in Zoe's Ark affair
Topix - Friday, November 09, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"When you go to a village, sometimes there is no school. When there are schools, there are not enough teachers. When communities get together to find teachers, they have not been trained" DAKAR, 8 November 2007 - Surrounded by the 103 African children caught up in... more
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