{Rwandan President Paul Kagame will not attend the summit which is expected to take place in Paris from December 6 to 7 for reasons of agenda-IGIHE has established}
The Rwandan president will be attending the annual session of the National Dialogue “Umushyikirano”, an interactive event that brings together thousands of delegates to which the head of State is committed to participate. Umushyikirano is also slated from 6 to 7 December and the event will be held in Kigali.
However this site learnt that Rwanda’s FM, Louise Mushikiwabo will represent President Kagame during the Paris meeting.
Held since 1975, the Africa-France summit was an opportunity for French and African officials to agree back-room deals to reward France for propping up sometimes corrupt regimes.
The 2013 summit will be held under the rubric: “The Elysée Summit for Peace and Security in Africa.”
The event will focus on three main themes including peace and security, economic partnership and development and climate change
However other sources said France will tell African leaders at a Paris summit on Friday it will no longer play policeman on the continent, even as it prepares to act in a new conflict in Central African Republic after its Mali intervention this year.
According to Reuters a drive by France to clean up its African policy together with new powers such as China and Brazil seeking lucrative business on the continent will give a new tone to this week’s talks with some 40 African leaders.
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