Slogans are easy--charity is hard

Case in point: the scandal now erupting in Europe over a charity purportedly working to rescue orphaned child refugees from Darfur.  The government of Chad has arrested nine French charity workers amid accusations of paedophilia and human trafficking.  The charity, L'Arche de Zoe ("Zoe's Ark"), defends its personnel as true humanitarians caught up in political maneuvering.

What's really going on here?  My own sense is that this isn't a paedophile ring.  Rather, it reflects a deep resentment toward some in Chad would view as neocolonial appropriation of its children. Even without the deep-rooted historical tensions, this kind of response is not unique.  For example, in Russia, American charity workers have been branded as spies, while nationalist resentment of Americans adopting Russian children recently led the Russian government to ban foreign adoptions.