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Article: Chadian president refuses French evacuation offer
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- February 3, 2008
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Chadian president refuses French evacuation offer
PARIS, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- Besieged Chadian President Idriss Deby
has turned down an offer by France to evacuate him from the country
should his life be threatened, a source at the French president's
office said Sunday.
"Since Friday, we have proposed assisting Idriss Deby to leave
Chad if he felt his life was in danger but he has refused," said the
source, confirming an earlier report by a local radio station.
"This offer is still valid," according to the source.
According to a journalist working for French International Radio
in the Chadian capital, heavy artillery fire resumed Sunday morning
in the capital's city center, where government ...