French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday he will make his first visit to Rwanda at the end of this May, a possible breakthrough in relations overshadowed by France’s role during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.
“I confirm I am going to Rwanda at the end of the month. The visit will be one of politics and remembrance but also economic,” Macron said at the end of an Africa summit in Paris, adding he had agreed with his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame “to write a new page in relations”.
