“79.32% of the votes in favor of Idriss Déby”, it is to be read this Tuesday morning on Alwihdainfo. “The Election Commission yesterday unveiled the overall preliminary results of the presidential election” on April 11, the Chad website explains.
More than 3.5 million votes: “It is not surprising that Idriss Déby Itno will still rule for six years”, specifies Tachad. In any case, the outgoing president is far ahead of the candidate for RNDT Le Réveil, Albert Pahimi Padacké, and his approximately 10.32%. Arrival third in this “presidential race”, “first female candidate” Tachad teaches us, Lydie Beassemda: she collects 3.16% of the votes. But the website recalls that “many opponents, leaders and civil society actors had initiated civic measures to boycott these elections which are described as insane”.
Votes contradict the results
“A Caricature”, we read on Chad Infos. This is the word that was spoken after Brice Mbaïmon Guedmbaye announced the results. Arrived for its part fourth, Chad Infos reports, it “rejects a block” results which according to him are “prefabricated”. Contrast with joy, was reported in another article, which broke out on Monday night Place de la Nation in Ndjamena, where MPS’s headquarters, the party, was “moved” party to remain in power.
A joy that is lacking, to put it mildly, because it was then expressed with shots in the capital, tells Alwihda, despite the authority’s ban …
Fear of Ndjamena
It is also in contrast to the fear that reigned earlier in the day. Tachad tells about Monday morning in Ndjamena : “Some educational institutions have released the children. On the main arteries, the users throw each other. Some residents flee the capital, others store food. The page Chadian explains: “Information about social networks, fake news, announces the development of the FACT rebels”.
“Panic in N’Djamena, the government calls for peace and quiet”, headlines the Journal du Chad. In fact, it was the deployment of tanks and army equipment that “created a wave of panic, storming and psychosis,” the magazine writes. But the government was reassuring, we read then, it confirmed its victory on the front, and it evoked a simple “deterrent, as a prelude to the proclamation of the result” of the election.
The Muse report on France’s role in Rwanda in 1994
Following the Duclert report on France’s role in Rwanda in 1994, there is now the Muse report. The French press, of course, repeats, especially the liberation. “A genocide with the goodwill of France,” the newspaper shows. This Muse report, published on Monday in Kigali, “confirms Paris’ conscious support for the extremists who orchestrated the extermination of the Tutsis in 1994”. He even emphasizes, the liberation continues, “how much this support remained long after the massacres”. Le Figaro abounds: yes, this new report written by a Washington-based law firm, a text of “600 pages of extreme sobriety, ends with a great responsibility from France”. But it goes in the direction of the Duclert report submitted on March 26 by Emmanuel Macron, Le Figaro believes, as it also rejects “the concept of participation in France”.
A report picked up by the Rwandan press
Of course, the Rwandan press also covers this report. The New Times, for example, publishes it in its entirety. And he explains how this report for Rwanda represents “a rejection of historical memory loss”. In this way, the magazine here questions the concept of “historical memory loss” that the French intellectual Ernest Renan defended during a famous speech held in La Sorbonne in the late 19th century. A concept that confirms that we must forget, for schematically “acts of violence have sometimes made progress”. For Ernest Renan, explains The New Times, “to remember is to bring to the surface a reality that can divide.” But the problem, the Rwandan newspaper analyzes, is that the historical memory loss that may have benefited France “should not be extended to include its relations with African countries”.
The problem in the end, the real difference, the newspaper believes, 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, The New Times concludes, this is its first and greatest human tragedy. “
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