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...relative calm returned to the streets of N'Djamena after rebel forces withdrew Sunday to the outskirts of the Chadian capital following a weekend of heavy fighting with government troops. The lull in the violence allowed the French Army to airlift over 800 foreigners out of Chad, 202 of whom touched down in Paris Sunday, tired but unharmed. The rebels retreated in the face of a successful counter-offensive mounted by units loyal to President Idriss Déby. But fears remained high in N'Djamena and abroad that the retreat is temporary and that the bloodletting...
...reiterate his support. Those officials wouldn't say whether any plans were afoot to evacuate Déby to Paris, however. And while France dispatched an additional 150 soldiers from Gabon to join the permanent 1,450 French troops posted in Chad, their mission seemed to be to help airlift foreign citizens to safety rather than to save the government...
...governments in its former African colonies, Elysée spokesman David Martinon stressed that the focus of the French government was "assuring that all the arrangements had been made to assure the safety of our nationals". Paris dispatched a French Army Airbus to N'Djamena Saturday to begin an airlift back to France when the situation allows it, but showed none of the readiness to put down a rebellion that had had been par for the course when Paris still considered Francophone Africa as France's back yard...
...group, guilty of attempted kidnapping. All six were sentenced to eight years of hard labor. The verdict came two months after Chadian police arrested a total of 17 people working with Zoé's Ark in the eastern town of Abéché as they prepared an unauthorized airlift of 103 children to France, where they were to receive medical care and be placed in foster homes. Zoé's Ark officials contended that their furtive methods were necessary to get urgent aid to the children, who they claimed were orphans from nearby Darfur. But investigators soon found that...
...being neglected," says Martin Joyce, the South America defense analyst for Jane's. "One is the Amazon region where drug traffickers are operating with impunity. Secondly, we are also seeing an increased presence of Colombian guerrillas and that requires mobility and that is whey we see helicopters and military airlift high on the priority list. Then there is the new oil reserves and part of the reason for the procurement of a nuclear submarine is because they said they need to protect those resources...