Paris: President Kagame attends twin summit meetings on Sudan and on Financing African Economies
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame is in Paris together with other heads of states to attend twin summit meetings that will seek to help Sudan into a new democratic era and provide Africa with critical financing swept away by the Covid-19 pandemic.
French President Emmanuel Macron this week hosts African leaders and chiefs of global financial institutions for the above meetings
A conference Monday attended by several heads of state will aim to rally support for the Sudan government under Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok in the transition after the 2019 ousting of longtime strongman Omar al-Beshir.
This will be followed by a summit Tuesday on African economies that will try to fill a financing shortfall of almost $300 billion caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
President Kagame today met with @KGeorgieva, Managing Director of @IMFNews and President @SahleWorkZewde of Ethiopia, ahead of the International Conference on Sudan and the Summit on Financing African Economies pic.twitter.com/BeQsNKhw1I
— Presidency | Rwanda (@UrugwiroVillage) May 16, 2021
With some two dozen African heads of state due to attend Tuesday’s summit, it will be one of the biggest in person top level meetings held during the Covid-19 pandemic.
It should also see a rare visit to France by Rwandan President Paul Kagame as Paris presses for reconciliation with Kigali after a historical report made clear France’s failings in preventing the 1994 genocide against Tutsi.
International financial leaders attending will include IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva as well as World Bank managing director of operations Axel van Trotsenburg.