Calls for France to rethink its Africa role

A Rwandan report this week charged Paris with complicity in the 1994 genocide. By Paris - A bombshell of a report by Rwanda this week implicating high-ranking French officials in the arming and training of Hutu forces that committed genocide in Rwanda – could have been issued last November. President Paul Kagame sat on the 500-page study, approved by the Rwandan Senate, for months. It was a time of some bonhomie with France. President Nicolas Sarkozy and Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, much liked in Kigali, were working on a new rapprochement policy – after Rwanda broke all ties with France in 2006 over a French judge's indictment of Mr. Kagame for allegedly ordering an assassination in 1994. Kagame, a Tutsi, appears to have lost patience with France. He had hoped that the 2006 indictment would be renounced and that... [read full story]