In the spotlight: the value of renewed friendships ...
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame, in February 2020 © John Muchucha / AP
By: Sébastien Duhamel
10 mins
Publicity
"
The new links between Rwanda and France are based on the truth, according to Kagame and Macron
",
read the front page of The New Times
. The Rwandan press obviously returns to Emmanuel Macron's trip to Kigali and this speech recognizing France's responsibility, speech held at the genocide memorial.
And The Chronicles
for its part
recalls
the context of this trip. It follows "
following President Paul Kagame's visit to France last week, during which the two leaders expressed their desire to normalize relations, their desire to open a
'new page'
in the icy relations that have lasted since. the genocide against the Tutsis in 1994
".
The Chronicles also underlines that this merger comes "a
few weeks after the politically coordinated publication of two reports"
, the Muse report on the French side and the Muse report on the Rwandan side.
The Chronicles finally remembers that “
before Macron, his compatriot, President Nicolas Sarkozy, was also
[in Kigali]
in 2010, with the idea of normalizing relations, but he had not been able to achieve much, because he was not prepared to fully assume the role of his country in the massacre of our people, ”
writes the Rwandan site.
And today, economic interests are probably not unrelated to this rapprochement ...
Two bilateral agreements already signed and words which do not mislead on this interest. "
I think that soon you will have new French investments in Rwanda
", the words of the regional economic adviser of France for East Africa and the Indian Ocean,
reported by The New Times
. The daily observes that Emmanuel Macron surrounded himself for this trip with "
A delegation of 15 business leaders who yesterday expressed their interest in extending their presence in Rwanda
". The areas of investment identified are health, transport and logistics, energy, ICT and agriculture. A roadmap has already been signed,
The New Times
tells us
. Nine companies present are looking for "
opportunities
”such as Eutelsat and ATM Innov for example.
Three others are already established in Rwanda, Canal +, or the Bolloré group in particular ...
The value of friendship… in the Namibian press too…
For the first time, Germany recognizes a genocide in Namibia, "
what is called the first genocide of the twentieth century,
"
writes
The New Era
. Between 1904 and 1908, “
tens of thousands of Namibians, mainly Namas and Herero
, recalls the newspaper. German troops massacred and displaced tens of thousands of Namibians. And since 2015, the two countries have been negotiating "
an agreement that would combine an official apology from Germany as well as reparations."
". And now,
specifies The Namibian
, Berlin says it is "
ready to pay 1.1 billion euros over 30 years for projects of reconciliation and reconstruction of affected communities.
".
But problem points the Namibian newspaper, on the spot, yesterday “
this offer was rejected yesterday by the traditional authority Herero and the association of traditional leaders Nama.
Chief Ovaherero Vekuii Rukoro said yesterday that the government's intentions were not pure.
"They are not looking for reparations. They are looking for their development projects," "reports The Namibian.
This money, given as for this purpose, “
is an insult to the communities
” affirms another chief in
The New Era
… Renewed friendship, yes, but not at any cost.
In Sudan, the memory of violence also ...
Souvenir or origin ... To read in
Le Figaro
, the French newspaper ... A 13,000-year-old cemetery "
which reveals traces of armed violence
" over several generations. Visit of the site of Djebel Sahaba, "
one of the most striking in archeology
",
Le Figaro
tells us
. It was discovered in 1965 on the border with Egypt, "
under what is today Lake Nasser of the Aswan Dam
". A necropolis which is considered “as the marker of the first battle in human history. A conflict that would have taken place between 13,000 and 17,000 years ago ... "At least we believed so, but a study conducted by a team of French researchers and published in the scientific journal reports"
reveal a more complex picture.
No it would not be a disaster cemetery as archaeologists thought, that is to say an improvised cemetery after a battle ... There are bodies of quite old women and children too. .. Not only young warriors ... The violence has therefore spread at least over several years ...
"So," is
this violence a character trait of our species or has war appeared more late
?
»
Le Figaro
cannot answer this question which has divided scientists for many years.
The newspaper simply underlines that the period to which this site of Jebel Sahaba dates back corresponds to a moment of great climatic upheaval, with the end of the last glacial, which in Africa resulted in a strong aridification.
This resulted in a concentration of populations around resources and tensions ... Yes, violence can arise from climate change in any case ...
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