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...criminal court in the Chadian capital of N'Djamena deliberated for only a few hours Monday evening before finding the six employees of Zoé's Ark, a France-based children's aid 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...
...Sarkozy flew down to the Chadian capital of N'Djamena on Sunday to finalize the release and return of three French journalists and four Spanish crew members of a jet Zoe's Ark had chartered to airlift 103 children it claimed were orphans from Darfur. Chadian police in the eastern city of Abéché moved in to stop the plane from departing on Oct. 25, amid charges the group was planning to sell the children to adopting parents in France. Since then, police and U.N. agency investigations have discovered most if not all the 103 children...
...scheme to hustle the children out of Chad. Their release therefore drew cheers in Europe but a surge of protest in Chad, where some believe the white suspects in the case are being given deferential treatment normal Chadians could never hope for. Press reports from Chadian capital N'Djamena are replete with residents expressing concern that the release of these seven following Sarkozy's intervention may be an initial step to all 17 ultimately being transferred to France - either via extradition accords, or through political deal-making...
...Arab women in order to breed “Arab” offspring. And our concern for the region only grew this week when Osama bin Laden called for a jihad in Sudan against any peacekeeping force.Also recently, rebels funded by the Sudanese government stormed N’Djamena, the capital of Chad.To call Darfur dangerous and unstable is an understatement, and there is reasonable concern that continued insecurity in the region could breed more global insecurity—on top of the immediate concern of continued genocide there. Economic divestment from Sudan is a moral imperative...
...spilling across borders. To diplomats in Sudan, it seemed only a matter of time before the brutal three-year-old conflict in the country's Darfur province followed suit, posing particular risk to landlocked, unstable Chad to the west. And indeed, this morning, residents of Chad?s capital, N?Djamena, woke up to find a small group of rebels trying to enter the city and battling government soldiers street by street. The gunfire and shelling began at dawn and, according to a BBC reporter in N?Djamena, lasted two hours before the government troops overpowered the attackers, who nevertheless promised...