Blinken visits Rwanda, meets President Kagame

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken continued his Rwanda visit today and met with President Paul Kagame. It was the last stop on his three-nation tour of Africa where he has articulated Washington's new strategy for engaging with sub-Saharan African nations as “equal partners.”

Blinken comes to Rwanda at a particularly difficult time for Africa's Great Lakes region, with the small central African nation at odds with vast neighbor Congo over allegations that both governments support rebels opposed to each other. In his meeting with Kagame, Blinken was expected to discuss efforts to ease the tensions.