Macron Plans First Visit to Rwanda this Month

French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday he would make his first visit to Rwanda at the end of this month, a possible breakthrough in relations overshadowed by France's role during the 1994 genocide. 

"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.  He added he had agreed with his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame, whom he met on the sidelines of a summit meeting on Monday, "to write a new page in relations".  His visit will be the first trip by a French president since Nicolas Sarkozy visited the country in 2010.