Rwandan President Paul Kagame has met with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in New York for rare talks, Kigali said today, as diplomatic ties remain icy over the 1994 genocide.
Kigali has long accused France of complicity in the genocide of some 800,000 mostly ethnic Tutsis, at the hands of Hutu extremists, angering Paris and straining relations.
The Rwandan presidency said in a statement that Kagame and Macron on Monday discussed “collaboration on issues of mutual interest including peace and security in Africa”, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Rwandan political commentator Christopher Kayumba said the meeting in New York is a “good sign that the relationship between the two could be better than with previous French presidents”.
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