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

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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.

But it emerged that most of the children were from neighbouring Chad and were not orphans.

(BBC)

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