Special envoy to Kigali
When we step outside the beaten and dark paths of the news, there are still reasons to hope.
This is the message that the French-African Foundation has been transmitting for five years, the winners of the latest promotion of which left these days to discover Rwanda.
A visit full of symbols, to a country hit by a genocide which has considerably deteriorated the Franco-African relationship.
But a visit likely to deceive all those who think that the links between Paris and the black continent - at a time of the dirty works of the Russian Wagner militia, the end of the Barkhane military operation in the Sahel, the rise of anti-French sentiment - are definitively broken.
No, there are people who think differently on both sides of the Mediterranean.
Far from the palaver where excess pessimism competes with the most blissful optimism, far from the sound of boots and diplomatic annoyances, far from the endless clichés about Françafrique, it is appropriate to remain realistic...
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