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Au Rwanda le départ progressif des Français se poursuit : 190 d'entre eux s'étaient envolés hier [29 juillet] de la base aérienne de Goma. La date limite pour la fin du retrait français reste fixée au 22 août

Card Number 30466

Number
30466
Author
Bromberger, Dominique
Author
Brunetti, Denis
Date
30 juillet 1994
Ymd
19940730
Time
13:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 13 heures
Title
Au Rwanda le départ progressif des Français se poursuit : 190 d'entre eux s'étaient envolés hier [29 juillet] de la base aérienne de Goma. La date limite pour la fin du retrait français reste fixée au 22 août
Subtitle
Pour l'instant, la capitale du Rwanda ressemble encore beaucoup à une ville fantôme.
Size
22081 bytes
Pages nb.
2
Source
TF1
Public records
INA
Type
Transcription d'une émission de télévision
Language
FR
Abstract
- In Rwanda, the gradual departure of the French continues: 190 of them took off yesterday [July 29] from the Goma air base. Several dozen other soldiers from Operation Turquoise will leave during the weekend. About twenty left this morning aboard an Antonov. The deadline for the end of the French withdrawal remains August 22.
- The United States, for its part, has decided to send 200 soldiers to Kigali to promote the return of the refugees. But for now, Rwanda's capital still looks a lot like a ghost town.
- Since Sunday [July 24], there are tens of thousands of refugees who have chosen to return. Very few of the millions who remained in Zaire or in the Turquoise zone. They return to an almost deserted country, the houses abandoned and looted. And the roadblocks of RPF soldiers still control the passages.
- The tea fields or the banana plantations are empty: there is little or no harvest. In the central market, the few quarters of meat and the vegetable stalls are still very thin. Daily life is difficult. The government formed, a few ministries have opened but the city still seems to be waiting.
- Kigali, like the surrounding countryside, sometimes seems quite empty. There used to be 350,000 inhabitants. Today there are only 50,000 in a city without water, without electricity, with a little activity around the market.