Rwanda and... (guess who) France!!! Getting along finally?

The International community is past finding its conscience and has moved on to perform action. If you remember, just recently Rwanda was preparing for the first visit from a French President since the beginning of the Rwandan genocide. Like I said, it would be interesting to see what happened. Well, the French President (of course) apologized saying that the French response to the genocide was "too late and undoubtedly too little." He also hoped for a more positive relationship with Rwanda in the future. Of course President Kagame was ready to move forward, but he sounded a bit (not like I blame him) angry saying "We are not here to fiddle with vocabulary. What happened here was unnacceptable..." (wonk wonk wonk can't we all just get along). Anyway, as we predicted the meeting was (for lack of a better adjective) interesting. Lets sit back and watch what will really happen between the two nations in the future.

France and Rwanda...Friends again?

France and Rwanda, cut diplomatic ties in 2006 when French judge, Jean Louis Brousiere, accused current Rwandan president Kagame, and other Tutsi officials of shooting down former Rwandan president Habyaremana's plane.The shooting sparked the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Sarkozy has announced he will be visiting Rwanda, making him the first French president to visit since the genocide in 1994. Rwanda, a former Belgian colony, was francophone until recently, when the judge's remark angered Rwandan officials into changing the official language to English. Diplomatic ties have been restored after a French official visited Rwanda. However, it still begs the question as to why, even before 2006, it has been so long since a French President has visited "the land of a thousand hills." Sarkozy's upcoming trip is very important for diplomatic ties between the two countries. His Presidency has never wasted time so I doubt that this will be an over rated trip, it's just interesting to see the events that will take place afterwards.