The decision by French judges to definitively close the investigation into the shooting down of a plane carrying former Rwanda president Juvénal Habyarimana is likely to usher in a new era of relations between France and Rwanda.
Paris and Kigali have maintained shaky relations over the past 25 years, mainly over differing accounts of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi and the investigations that started over 21 years ago.
