Chad has pardoned six French aid workers imprisoned last December for abducting 103 African children.

The six, who work for Paris-based agency Zoe's Ark, are serving an eight-year prison sentence in France.

The aid workers had said that they believed they were rescuing orphans from Sudan's troubled Darfur region to take them to foster homes in Europe.

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(BBC)

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