In the News: a victory announced and a wind of panic in Chad
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Chadian President Idriss Deby.
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By: Sébastien Duhamel
9 mins
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"
79.32% of the votes for Idriss Déby
",
it is to be read this morning on Alwihdainfo
.
"
The Electoral Commission yesterday unveiled the overall provisional results of the presidential election
" of April 11, explains the Chadian site.
More than 3.5 million votes: “
Unsurprisingly, Idriss Déby Itno will still govern for six years,
”
says Tachad
.
The outgoing president is in any case far ahead of the candidate of RNDT Le Réveil, Albert Pahimi Padacké, and his approximately 10.32%.
Arrival third in this "
presidential race
", the "
first woman candidate
"
tells us Tachad
, Lydie Beassemda: she collects 3.16% of the vote.
But the site recalls that "
many opponents, leaders and actors of civil society had initiated citizen actions to boycott these elections described as insane
".
Voices contest the results
“
A caricature
”,
we read on Tchad Infos
.
This is the word spoken after the announcement of the results by Brice Mbaïmon Guedmbaye.
Arrived for its part fourth, reports Tchad Infos, it “
rejects en bloc
” results which are according to him “
prefabricated
”.
Contrast with the joy, reported in another article, which erupted last night at Place de la Nation in Ndjamena, where
the headquarters of the MPS, the party, left to remain in power
was "
relocated
".
A joy that bursts, it's even an understatement since it was then expressed by gunfire in the capital,
reports Alwihda
, despite the ban decreed by the authorities ...
Fear in Ndjamena
It also contrasts with the fear that reigned earlier in the day.
Tachad tells us yesterday morning in Ndjamena
: “
Some educational establishments have released the children. On the main arteries, users jostle each other. Some residents are fleeing the capital, others stock up on food.
The Chadian site explains: "
Information on social networks, false news, announces the progression of the FACT rebels
".
"
Panic in N'Djamena, the government calls for calm and serenity
", headlines the
Journal du Tchad
.
It was in fact the deployment of tanks and army equipment that "
created a wave of panic
,
stampede and psychosis,"
writes the
Journal
.
But the government was reassuring, we then read, it reaffirmed its victory on the front, and it evoked a simple "
deterrent measure, as a prelude to the proclamation of the results
" of the election.
The Muse report on the Role of France in Rwanda in 1994.
After the Duclert report on France's role in Rwanda in 1994, there is now the Muse report. The French press is of course echoed,
Liberation in
particular. "
A genocide with the benevolence of France"
, displays the newspaper. This Muse report, made public yesterday in Kigali,
"confirms Paris' deliberate support for the extremists who orchestrated the extermination of the Tutsis in 1994"
. He even underlines, continues
Liberation
, "
how much this support persisted long after the end of the massacres"
.
Le Figaro
abounds: yes, this new report written by a Washington-based law firm, a text by "
600 extremely sober pages, concludes with a heavy responsibility of France
”.
But it goes in the direction of the Duclert report submitted on March 26 Emmanuel Macron, believes
Le Figaro
, because it also rejects
"the notion of complicity of France
".
A report picked up by the Rwandan press
The Rwandan press also takes up this report, of course.
The New Times
publishes it in full, for example. And he explains how this report represents for Rwanda "
a refusal of historical amnesia".
In doing so, the newspaper here calls into question the notion of “
historical amnesia
” defended by the French intellectual Ernest Renan during a famous speech held at La Sorbonne at the end of the 19th century. A concept affirming that we must forget because, schematically, “
acts of violence have sometimes given birth to progress
”. For Ernest Renan, explains
The New Times
, “
to remember is to bring to the surface a reality that can divide
".
But the problem, analyzes the Rwandan newspaper, is that the historical amnesia which may have been beneficial to France "
should not be extended to its relations with African countries
".
The problem ultimately, the real difference believes the newspaper, is that “
for a majority of the French political class, the genocide committed against the Tutsis is one of the many unfortunate episodes in the history of France, a political problem
.
But for Rwanda
, concludes
The New Times
, this is its first and greatest human tragedy ”.
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