KIGALI, Rwanda — French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Rwanda on Thursday for a highly symbolic visit aimed at moving on from three decades of diplomatic tensions over France’s role in the 1994 genocide in the country.
Macron is the first French leader since 2010 to visit the East African nation, which has long accused France of complicity in the killing of some 800,000 mostly Tutsi Rwandans.
He landed in Kigali shortly after 7:00am local time, for a busy one day visit before he heads to South Africa on Friday, according to the French presidency.
The key moment of the Rwanda leg will come when Macron gives a speech Thursday morning at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, wh…
Keep on reading: Macron in Rwanda to turn page on post-genocide tensions