Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame will be visiting India later this month, the first head of state visit from Africa to India amid the COVID pandemic. The visit comes even aas India is increasing its engagement with Africa, with a number of high-level visits from both sides before the pandemic.
Both India and Rwanda have seen high-level engagement, with Indian PM Modi visiting the country in 2018. Remember during that visit, India had gifted 200 Indian cows that helped in improving the availability of milk for Rwandan children and also increased the income of farmers.
In the month of March, India had supplied Rwanda India made vaccines. 2.9 lakh doses of India-made vaccines were sent, of which 2.40 lakh were sent under COVAX, and 0.5 lakh as a gift.
This year, Rwanda’s capital Kigali will be hosting the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in the month of June. Kagame while making the announcement had said, “CHOGM Rwanda 2021 will be an exceptional…
