Word: chadli
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Things seem to be going from bad to worse for the six officials of a French non-governmental organization charged with attempted kidnapping in Chad, following their Oct. 25 arrest while trying to airlift 103 children they claimed were Darfur orphans. A total of 16 European nationals will stand trial for involvement in a case that Chadian authorities initially condemned as an illegal money-for-adoption scheme praying on child refugees from war-torn Darfur. If convicted, the six French child aid workers could face 20 years of hard labor in the bizarre affair - which has created an atmosphere...
...another French relief organization that most of the 103 children were neither orphans - nor even Sudanese for the most part. Those allegations were reinforced on Thursday when two U.N. agencies said they?d managed to confirm 91 of the children had at least one parent, and most came from Chad. French media reports, meanwhile, quoted residents of Chadian villages claiming they'd seen some of the 103 children lured from their homes into trucks by visiting white people promising candy...
...Adoption is not permitted in either Sudan or Chad; and any effort to engineer the adoption of citizens from either country is legally punishable, as are violations of immigration procedures by unauthorized attempts to remove the children from Chad. Adoption arranged by an organization not officially chartered for that function is also prohibited in France. Officials at Zoe's Ark explain their intention was to get the children to safety in France by any means, then initiate extraordinary procedures once on French soil to obtain special refugee status for the children. Though the youngsters were to be placed in foster...
...concerns about its rumored adoption practices. And while Yade said French officials still don't have enough detail to be able to confirm or refute the charges of child trafficking, she suggested the NGO knew it was playing with fire. "You don't remove children from countries like Chad and Sudan that don't allow adoption," Yade said...
...this third group of runners that Chad Schieber, 35, fell to the ground. A Michigan policeman, Schieber was pronounced dead at an area hospital at 12:50 p.m. (an autopsy later showed he had a heart condition). It was unclear if he, like Hayes, had been denied water on the marathon course...