Rwanda and France frenemies forever

President Kagame received President Nicolas Sarkozy of France on his first visit to Rwanda.

Three years ago a commission of inquiry set up by Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame accused France of having “played an active part in the preparation and execution of the genocide in 1994”.

On a trip to Rwanda last year Mr Sarkozy visited the Gisozi genocide memorial and acknowledged that France had made “a grave error of judgment” and displayed a “kind of blindness” about the genocidal intentions of the previous (French-speaking) Rwandan government.

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