A court in Chad has sentenced six French aid workers to eight years of hard labour for trying to take more than 100 children out

The six employees of French charity Zoe's Ark were arrested in October.
The charity said at the time it was evacuating refugee children orphaned by the conflict in Darfur so they could be cared for by families in Europe.
Most of the children were however found to be from Chad, which borders Darfur, and with parents who were still alive.
The case sparked outrage in the oil-producing former French colony.
Protesters in Chad demanded the accused aid workers face justice, amid claims they may be treated leniently because they were Europeans.
The French government says it will now ask the Chadian government to return the aid workers to France.
The verdict was delivered on the fourth day of a trial that started on 21 December.
A Chadian and a Sudanese national who were also on trial were each sentenced to four years imprisonment, the AFP news agency reports.
Two other Chadians accused in the child-trafficking case were acquitted.
Hunger strike
The court found the French nationals guilty of the "attempted kidnap of children, breaching their civil rights".
It also found the group guilty of "absconding without payment" of bills accrued in their attempt to fly the children out of eastern Chad.
According to AFP, the head of Zoe's Ark, Eric Breteau, and the Sudanese national, Souleimane Ibrahim Adam, were found guilty of the further charge of using forged documents.
The French nationals briefly went on hunger strike in December to protest at their treatment.
Earlier this month, Chadian authorities said they had dropped the case against another 12 people initially held with the French aid workers.
The 12 - including French journalists and Spanish flight crew - had already been allowed to leave Chad.
The United Nations children's charity, Unicef, has described the French charity mission to fly children out of Chad as illegal under international law.
French officials also described Zoe's Ark's actions as "illegal and irresponsible".
The charity and its leader, Mr Breteau, say they genuinely believe they were rescuing orphans from Darfur and have blamed their local contacts for allegedly duping them.