Rwanda’s president praises report on France’s role in 1994 genocide

Tens of thousands of Rwandan refugees during the crisis prompted by the genocide (Jean-Marc Bouju)/AP)

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda praised a new French report documenting France’s role in the 1994 genocide as “a good thing”, welcoming efforts in Paris to “move forward with a good understanding of what happened” 27 years after the massacres that shocked the world.

Mr Kagame spoke before dignitaries and others in an arena in the capital, Kigali, at the start of a week during which the central African country will commemorate the genocide.