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Sudan's president, who faces charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, traveled to neighboring Chad on Wednesday — the first time he has risked arrest by traveling to a member state of the International Criminal Court.
The Chadian government said the army defeated a rebel column that was heading to the capital and was pursuing other fighters, but rebels denied this Friday.
A Chadian court on Friday sentenced a former president and eleven rebels to death for crimes against the state, an official said.
Chad's army has killed 161 rebels in a battle in the eastern part of the African country, a military official said Wednesday.
A Chadian minister on Tuesday accused the Sudanese army of assisting rebels in an attack on an army post in eastern Chad, an allegation Sudan denied and that was bound to complicate already tense relations between the neighbors.
Rebels trying to topple President Idriss Deby on Saturday attacked a town in eastern Chad where thousands of refugees are taking shelter, officials said.
Six French aid workers sentenced to eight years of forced labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children left for France in handcuffs Friday to serve their terms in their own country.
A Chadian court convicted six French aid workers of trying to kidnap 103 African children and sentenced them Wednesday to eight years of forced labor.
Six French aid workers accused of trying to kidnap dozens of African children denied wrongdoing Friday as their trial began, with the head of the group insisting they were doing their best to help young war victims seek asylum in France.
An ailing Belgian pilot charged with complicity in an alleged kidnapping attempt by a French charity working in Chad said Saturday he had no regrets about his role in transporting the group.
The French prime minister on Saturday ordered an investigation into a French charity accused of kidnapping 103 African children from Chad. Seven suspects in the case appeared at a pretrial hearing in Chad's capital.
Chad charged six French citizens with kidnapping after they tried to fly out 103 African children from the remote border region with Sudan, bandaging them up to look injured and claiming they were Darfur orphans in need of rescue.
Six French nationals have been charged with kidnapping after a failed attempt to fly from Chad with 103 children a charity said were orphans from Sudan's Darfur region, authorities said Tuesday.
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