
Chad’s ‘rescued’ children claim they were lured with biscuits:
The children who French charity workers claimed were orphans from Darfur said they had been bribed to leave their homes with sweets and biscuits. They were facing death in the Darfur region of Sudan, according to the charity, Zoe’s Ark, which had lined up foster families in France to look after them.
Local officials who interviewed the children, aged between 3 and 10, say most are from Chad – a claim backed by Unicef. The UN children’s organisation said bandages put on the children by members of Zoe’s Ark were designed to portray them as war victims. None were wounded and, said Unicef: “There is no reason to believe they are orphans.”
Source (Times)
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