Chad will decide fate of convicted french aid workers

CHAD insisted yesterday it would have the last word over the fates of six French aid workers sentenced to eight years of forced labour as France asked they be sent home.

Chad will decide fate of convicted french aid workers

France wants the charity workers, who were convicted of attempting to kidnap 103 African children they claimed were orphans from Darfur, to be repatriated under a 1976 bilateral judicial accord.

The six, from charity group Zoe’s Ark, were sentenced to eight years of forced labour by a court in the Chadian capital, N’djamena, yesterday.

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