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 N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) - Aid agencies say children in dire circumstances — even those in the inhospitable Saharan camps to which Darfur refugees have fled — need their families, not to be flown to the comforts of the West as a charity wanted to do.
Seventeen Europeans have been detained since Thursday after authorities stopped a French group calling itself Zoe's Ark from flying 103 African children from Chad to Europe. Six of the 17 were French citizens who have been charged with kidnapping.
Zoe's Ark said the children were orphans from Darfur — the western Sudanese region that has for the last four years been a battleground for rebels, government troops and government-allied militiamen — and it intended to place them with French host families. The group says its intentions were purely humanitarian.
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