However, when asked if an apology would be a further important gesture Kagamé, who was in Paris for a summit on post-pandemic financing for African nations hosted by President Emmanuel Macron, responded: 'I think so.'
François Bayrou, France's 'high commissioner' responsible for advising on the country's economic and demographic future, has warned of an insufficient birth rate in order to 'preserve the French social model', urging measures to encourage couples to have more children and a loosening of immigration restrictions.
Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right Rassemblement National party (the former front National), has claimed media revelations of a French police report into her party's alleged 6.8-million-euro fraud of the EU in a ficticious jobs scam was a plot against her by President Emmanuel Macron's camp ahead of next year's presidential elections.
The French government has succeeded with its target of ensuring that 20 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine were administered by mid-May, with the next stage being the administration of a total 30 million doses by mid-June.
The organisers of a demonstration planned for this weekend in solidarity with Palestinians amid the Israel-Gaza military conflict said they will go ahead with their march despite an official ban on the gathering which, authorities argue, carried the threat of public disturbance.
Across Paris and other cities and towns around France, women activists are leading an original and striking poster campaign to raise awareness over sexual and domestic violence in the country, and their example is now being followed by others across Europe.
French cinemas are due to re-open next week after lockdown measures last October blanked out screens across the country, but along with strict regulations that will limit their seating capacity to a third of the normal they must also juggle with presenting dozens of films that have queued up for release.
The head of President emmanuel Macron's LREM party has threatened to remove support for four of its candidates in local elections in southern France unless they withdraw a campaign flyer in which one of them is pictured wearing a Muslim headscarf.
A French court on Wednesday ordered Air France and Airbus to stand trial for 'involuntary homicide' over the June 2009 crash of an Air France Airbus A330 passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris which plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean killing all 228 people on board.
