After a incident with six French aid workers Chad must now watch and screen outside help. These workers are awaiting trial after capturing and trying to take 103 children out of Chad and into Europe. They were planning on putting them all up for adoption. However, none of these children were orphans or Darfur victims. From now on the Foreign Minister Ahmad Allam-Mi stated there shall be preliminary checks conducted on all aid agencies.
Non Governmental Organizations such as United Nations and the Red Cross will not be affected since they have had partnerships with them for many years. Humanitarian NGOs which include those that give emergency aid will be screened for nationality, capacity, loyalty, and honesty. As of now there are between 150-200 aid agencies working in Chad.
This is hard to believe that people going through so much pain and suffering already now have to be concerned with outsiders coming in trying to steal their children. There are already 240,000 refugees from Darfur in Chad trying to get away from the violence and now they have even more to worry about. It's a shame that they can't even trust charity groups now.
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