Word: chadli
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...mandate is more robust in the new mission than it has been in any previous ones. Though there are provisions meant to keep the European troops from intervening in Chad's internal conflict, on this mission the military has "an appropriate mandate allowing the use of armed force if necessary." That makes this the most ambitious mission since the E.U.'s 7,000-strong Operation Althea in Bosnia, which took over from NATO mission in 2004. "It's very significant, and about as big as it gets," said Tomas Valasek, a director at London-based think-tank the Centre...
...France's role is critical. It already has around 5,000 soldiers in three permanent bases in Africa: Senegal, Gabon and Djibouti, along with 2,600 soldiers on a peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast, and 1,100 already on the ground in Chad...
...rejoin the NATO integrated military command that President Charles De Gaulle pulled out of in 1966. "Europeanizing" France's military presence in Africa is seen as helping Paris towards both those goals. Sarkozy says he wants to beef up the E.U. defense capacities, and having an E.U. mission in Chad is one way of encouraging that. He also says an independent E.U. defense capability is the price for France rejoining NATO command...
...Critics will say that the E.U. mission is still modest in numbers and scope compared to U.S.-led operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and even the U.N.-AU effort in Darfur. But for the E.U., progress comes in little steps: the mission to Chad and the CAR will be a key test of military resolve in difficult conditions, and a possible precursor to more efforts sending E.U. soldiers to foreign fields. "This is quite unlike anything the E.U. has been involved in ever before," CER's Valasek said. Although he felt Chad was less of a clear E.U. foreign policy...
...court near Paris has ruled that six French aid workers convicted in Chad and sentenced to an eight-year prison for attempted kidnapping will serve that full jail term in France - though with no hard labor, which under French law is banned. The ruling brings the bizarre, at times tawdry saga of humanitarian assistance group Zoé's Ark to its legal conclusion, but emotions still run high: as the judgment was read out, relatives and friends of the six shook the courtroom with cries of protest and claims of political manipulation...