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| Chad's 'orphans' returning home | |
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| The government of Chad has given permission for 103 children who were caught up in a trafficking scandal to be returned home, Unicef says. | The government of Chad has given permission for 103 children who were caught up in a trafficking scandal to be returned home, Unicef says. |
| Six French aid workers were convicted last year of trying to take the children to Europe, saying they thought they were orphans from Darfur. | |
| The children will be returned to their families from an orphanage in Chad as soon as possible, Unicef says. | The children will be returned to their families from an orphanage in Chad as soon as possible, Unicef says. |
| The aid workers have been returned to France to serve out their jail terms. | The aid workers have been returned to France to serve out their jail terms. |
| They said they had been tricked into thinking the children they were preparing to fly to France were Sudanese orphans from Darfur. | They said they had been tricked into thinking the children they were preparing to fly to France were Sudanese orphans from Darfur. |
| However, most of the children were found to be from Chad, which borders the war-torn western Sudanese region, and had parents who were still alive. | However, most of the children were found to be from Chad, which borders the war-torn western Sudanese region, and had parents who were still alive. |
| Some of their parents told the BBC last year they thought their children were being taken to stay in a nearby town to go to school. | |
| The case led to several anti-French protests in Chad, a former French colony. | |
| The French army last month helped government forces fight off a rebel attack on the capital, N'Djamena. |