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...King Kigeli V. Ndahindurwa, who has not seen his country in more than 30 years, wants to go back to Rwanda now that his Tutsi tribe is calling the shots. The ex-monarch, who was deposed in 1961 when Rwanda became independent, has just relayed a message to the Kigali government, promising to let the people decide whether he should rule if he's granted entry. For now, King Kigeli, 58, lives in the Washington suburb of Takoma Park, Maryland. A recent report said the impoverished king had applied for food stamps there...
...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...
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...