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...refrains from propping up its longtime ally, the rebels are unlikely to find much international support if they do take power. Rebel action has forced a delay in the deployment of 3,700 French-led European Union troops in Chad to set up humanitarian corridors for refugees from neighboring Darfur. Many member states of both the African Union (AU) and European Union (EU), in fact, accuse Sudan of having financed, trained, and armed the Chadian rebels as a proxy army to take down the Déby government. French Defense Minister Hervé Morin put both of those elements together...
Walker, who is currently producing a film detailing the genocide in Darfur, added that this love should penetrate all life’s actions...
...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...
...case evidence or the guilty verdict handed down in Chad's capital, N'Djamena. That controversial judgment, issued on December 26, convicted the six Zoé's Ark's workers of attempted kidnapping in their efforts to secretly fly 103 children they claimed were orphans from war-torn Darfur out of eastern Chad to France for urgent care. Later investigations concluded that virtually all the children were in fact relatively healthy Chadian nationals with at least one living parent, and elsewhere uncovered a range of troubling details surrounding Zoé's Ark and its mission...
...members have consistently maintained their innocence, and claimed they'd become scapegoats of the Chadian government's attempts to take advantage of the humanitarian crisis created by the violence in Darfur. But despite a considerable public relations push by supporters to cast the aid workers as victims, French public opinion has failed to warm to their cause. Before and during their trial in Chad, certain members of the group righteously justified their at times extra-legal efforts to tend to the children as legitimate given the urgency of the situation. Since their December 28 return to France under Franco-Chadian...