As General Brice Oligui Nguema was sworn in as transitional president on Monday, in France some students who were unable to leave Gabon after the military coup and border closures are seeking solutions to join their French universities as soon as possible.
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Djamila has enrolled in a master’s degree in innovation management, she must start classes for the first time at the University of Amiens in Picardy. After the announcement of the reopening of the borders, his relief was short-lived: “ I’m worried because, as I speak, I don’t know where I’ll be staying, she explains. I lost my room due to the current situation. Being non-stock market, I do not think that my State will find a solution. Right now, I can arrive on French territory and find a solution. But could I leave the country between Monday and Tuesday, that, I don’t know. »
Find a flight
The difficulty is to find an available flight in high season, as explained by the president of the Federation of Gabonese Students in France (Fegaf), Hans Moukagni: “ It’s hard to change plane tickets. The costs are extremely high depending on the companies that generally serve from Gabon to France. If we have to take into account the coup d’etat, if we also have to take into account the low financial means and if we have to take into account the current period, that is to say the holiday period, the prices are drastically high. So it becomes extremely difficult for students to change their ticket and find seats on planes. »
Out of more than 7,000 Gabonese students in France, nearly a hundred are expected for their first entry into French universities.
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