Mali: French Families Press Mali to Scrap Ban On Foreign Adoption

BY SARAH ELZAS IN PARIS, 10 APRIL 2013

As French troops fight armed Islamists in northern Mali, a group of French families is to lobby for a change in the African country's adoption law, amended in 2012, so that only Malian families could adopt Malian children.

When the law changed about 80 French families, who had been approved by both countries to adopt, were told their applications were no longer valid.

Some of them now wonderif the French military intervention to push out Islamists from the north of Mali, could help their cause.

AC International Child Support: The law must be changed

Organization AC International Child would have done international adoptions open, but it requires a change in the law.

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Organization AC International Child would have done international adoptions open, but it requires a lovændring.Her seen Gimma Kebele, who worked on DanAdopt now closed orphanage in Ethiopia, ENAT Alem. Beside the job as a night watchman, he earned money to find suitable families and convince them that they should be adopting their children. Photo: DR

Written by: Line Gertsen and Ditte Bannor-Kristensen

Police charge couple, others to court for alleged child trafficking in Abia

WEDNESDAY, 10 APRIL 2013 08:22 FROM GORDI UDEAJAH, UMUAHIA NEWS - METRO

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THE Abia State Police Command said that it has charged five persons to court, including a couple, for child-trafficking.

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Human trafficking in Abia: Baby auction! Man sells only son for N350,000 to procure Greek visa

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Wonders, they say, shall never cease. In what seemed a bizarre, sale of babies is booming in Abia State, according to feelers from the police command which reeled out statistics at a briefing in Umuahia yesterday.

The Police Commissioner, Mr. Usman Tilli Abubakar, said that a 20-year-old father of one had sold his only son for N350,000 to enable him procure a Greek visa.

Adoption: Were instructed to lie in court

Police have investigated Danish adoptionsburo's methods in Ethiopia.

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Alemsthay Degefu adopted her baby to Denmark, but she told BBC News how DanAdopt Ethiopian partner orphanage ENAT Alem, instructed her to lie in court, so the adoption could go through.

Written by: Line Gertsen and Ditte Bannor-Kristensen

Adoption system must be under the microscope

The revelations of fake death certificates and paid between men get now Minister of Social Affairs to intervene.

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The revelations of fake death certificates and paid between men get now Minister of Social Affairs to intervene. © DR

Written by: Line Gertsen

DanAdopt: We prefer perhaps out of Ethiopia

The organization is considering to withdraw from Ethiopia.

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The last days of revelations about the so-called børnehøstere and false death certificates has caused the DanAdopt have sent two employees to Ethiopia to investigate tilstanden.Beslutningen to be or not depends on the explanations they come home with. Photo: DR

Written by: Line Gertsen

SC seeks clarity on citizenship status of adopted child

New Delhi, April 9, 2013, DHNS:

A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court (SC) presided by Justice Gyan Sudha Misra on Monday has asked the Centre to explain the citizenship status of a child adopted by a foreign couple.

The apex court poser came while hearing a special leave petition filed by 31-year-old Jennifer Edgell Haynes whose inter-country adoption had gone terribly wrong.

The court wanted to know if such an adopted child is granted citizenship of the country of the adoptive parents.

Gimma Kebele worked at DanAdopt’s now closed children’s home in Ethiopia, Enat Alem. In addition to his work on the night shift, he helped the children’s home to identify suitable families and convince them to give their children up for adoption. According to a local official, he received compensation for this work, which is illegal in Ethiopia.

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Adoption middleman speaks out

08. apr. 2013 13.42 English

On Friday the Danish Ministry of Social Affairs imposed a ban on adoptions from Ethiopia through DanAdopt after a group of women complained that they felt pressured to give their children up for adoption.

Court releases 28 children back to adoptive parents

BY OPALYN MOK

APRIL 08, 2013

BUKIT MERTAJAM, April 8 — The Bukit Mertajam magistrate’s court today ordered 28 children, who are subjects of an alleged child trafficking ring, to be released into the care of their adoptive parents.

The children, between the ages of five months and eight years, were brought to the courthouse in a bus where the court issued the interim custody to the adoptive parents.