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This is a historic trip for Emmanuel Macron, who will travel to Kigali on Thursday 27 May. He is only the second French president to travel to Rwanda since the Tutsi genocide in 1994. After a long stormy relationship, the two countries have moved closer in the past three years. The head of state's program promises to be busy in the capital. Many Rwandans are hoping for an apology from France after the…

Emmanuel Macron is on an official visit to Rwanda on Thursday 27 May. This rapprochement with Kigali is made possible in particular by the Ducler Commission's report on France's responsibility for the 1994 genocide. It was drawn up on the basis of easy access to the official archives of the time. Despite the promise of greater transparency, access to classified documents is still boring for researchers.…

"An unacceptable coup": European leaders "strongly condemned the arrest of Mali's president and his prime minister," Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday at the end of a European summit in which France called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. "We are ready to take the targeted sanctions against the main characters,…

The book All it takes is a hope was published on May…

In Moroni, Campus France, a government agency located in various countries that high school students and foreign students are required to apply for when they want to continue their studies in France, has been accused of unpaid work. Its boss, Renaud Vely, a French contracting agent, was involved in an email condemning mismanagement against a background of racism because Comorian temporary workers were…

French Justice has simply accused BNP Paribas of "laundering corruption and laundering the embezzlement of public funds". The investigation by the monetary heart on the court docket in Paris issues the legacy of the previous Gabonese president, now deceased, Omar Bongo. In equity, "GDP failed to satisfy its vigilance obligations" by failing to report the massive sums that handed by means of it and had…

Benoît Chervalier is an funding financial institution, instructing at Sciences Po Paris and at Essec (Larger College of Financial and Business Sciences). A debt and finance specialist in Africa, he advises governments and corporations on the topic. RFI: France organizes a global summit on financing and debt points in Africa. French President Emmanuel Macron can…

This Tuesday, Could 18, a summit can be held in Paris devoted to the financing of African economies and the prickly debt situation. The Covid-19 pandemic plunged the continent into an unsurpassed recession final yr. African nations should finance their restoration, however in contrast to the good powers, they wouldn't have the identical capability. The Paris Summit should study specifically the choices…

After greater than 25 years of tense exchanges, following the French intervention in Rwanda in the course of the genocide of the Tutsis in that nation, relations between the 2 international locations have warmed up significantly in recent times underneath the French Presidency Emmanuel Macron. Rwandan President Paul Kagames visited Paris this week for the summit on the African financial system and…

France will assist Sudan, closely indebted and dedicated to a democratic transition, settle its money owed with the Worldwide Financial Fund (IMF) by lending $ 1.5 billion, Financial system Minister Bruno Le Maire introduced on Monday, Could 17. France will work to "free Sudan from its debt burden as quickly as doable", says…