Word: kigali
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consumes nearly 600 metric tons of food and 50,000 gallons of water daily. According to United Nations officials, the present supplies, imported over the 497 mile gauntlet of bandits and renegade militiamen form Entebbe, are grossly inadequate. Moreover, Entebbe seems the only viable airport, as relief operations to Kigali, Rwanda's capital, frequently draw fire from automatic weapons...
...Friday that he was asking Congress for $320 million more in emergency funds in addition to the $250 million already committed, Pentagon planners were wrestling with how best to use the money. The President's promise to dispatch 200 U.S. troops to the airport in Rwanda's capital of Kigali to make it a relief supply hub was accompanied by promises that the deployment was for "the sole purpose of humanitarian relief, not peacekeeping." Even his announcement that the U.S. would formally recognize the R.P.F. was circumscribed by Pentagon warnings that American troops should not get caught...
Government officials admitted that some Tutsi fighters, flush with victory after a life in exile and years of warfare, were looting warehouses and stores and stripping houses bare in the wealthy sections of Kigali. "Some of this is to be expected," said Vice President Kagame. But he promised that "everything will be given back to the owners when they return." He insists that his goal is a multiethnic, meritocratic society, without the identity cards and propaganda barrages that have turned Tutsi and Hutu against one another for the past generation...
...Africa. The task requires the equivalent of a Marshall Plan, argues R.P.F. spokesman Claude Dusaidi at the U.N. "There is nothing left in Rwanda. There is a polluted environment; there is no educational system; the civil service has disappeared; there's no judiciary," he says. The capital of Kigali is without electricity; the banks have been emptied of money; and government ministers communicate by letter because the telephones...
...cholera tent in Goma, Edithe Nyirarukundo, 34, lies on soiled cardboard. Back in Kigali she had been a secretary at the Ministry of Labor. She lost touch with her husband and three children in the war. Now she's recuperating, she says, from the cholera. "I want to go home. I don't understand why we can't settle things in a country as small as ours." Edithe lays her head on the mattress of her friend Claudette Ruhumuliza, 27, a teacher. "I think I'm going to die soon," Claudette says, staring at her husband Prosper. Once they...