Paul Kagame

French President Emmanuel Macron visited Kigali on Thursday in hopes of restoring ties between the two nations after decades of Rwandan accusations that France was involved in the 1994 genocide that left hundreds of thousands of people dead. The visit follows the release of a report by a French inquiry panel in March which says that a colonial attitude has blinded French officials and that the government had a "serious and overwhelming" responsibility for not anticipating the slaughter. However, the…

French President Emmanuel Macron visited Kigali on Thursday in hopes of restoring ties between the two nations after decades of Rwandan accusations that France was involved in the 1994 genocide that left hundreds of thousands of people dead. The visit follows the release of a report by a French inquiry panel in March which says that a colonial attitude has blinded French officials and that the government had a "serious and overwhelming" responsibility for not anticipating the slaughter. However, the…

Rwanda's main genocide survivor group said on Thursday that it was disappointed that French President Emmanuel Macron did not "present a clear apology" for France's role in the 1994 genocide during his visit to Rwanda. Egide Nkuranga, president of the Ibuka Association, said Macron did not "apologize", according to remarks by Agence France-Presse (AFP). But he "really tried to explain the genocide, how it happened, what they did not do, their responsibility ... It is very important, it shows that he understands us."…

Emmanuel Macron's visit to Rwanda on Thursday 27 May is presented by the Élysée as the final step in the "normalization" of relations between Paris and Kigali, which has begun in recent years. Conditions were poisoned by the thorny issue of the role played by France during the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis, which several heads of state had previously tried to reassure. Without much success until recently.…

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…

Within the Democratic Republic of the Congo, President Félix Tshisekedi has lastly come out of his silence after shouting on the phrases of his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame, who denied crimes dedicated by his troops and criticized the UN survey report which lists essentially the most crimes. within the Congo, and particularly by the Rwandan military, between 1993 and 2003.…

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…

Among the many eleven personalities coming into the brand new authorities in Congo-Brazzaville is an opponent, Honoré Sayi, appointed Minister of Power and Hydraulics. Till then, this philosophy instructor was president of the parliamentary group of the Pan-African Union for Social Democracy, the primary opposition celebration. Younger Africa, ”Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso, 46, son of the President, takes on the newly…

The Rwandan president will go to Paris on Monday and Tuesday. Paul Kagame will attend two separate summits: one on Sudan and one on African economies. He also needs to meet former French troopers who served in Rwanda between 1990 and 1994. One other step in warming diplomatic relations between the 2 international locations. A pattern seen positively in Kigali.…

To avoid constantly being in the situation of having to apologize in the future, France should, from today onwards, address a kind of perception of relations between politicians or the interests of more or less private French and African leaders and states. Hatred at the heart of political life in Africa. This was what led to…