A top suspect in Rwanda's genocide of 1994 has appeared at a UN-backed court in Tanzania. Idelphonse Nizayimana is a former Hutu intelligence chief charged with ordering and organising the killings of Tutsis.
One of the top suspects in Rwanda's 1994 genocide, a former army captain nicknamed the 'Butcher of Butare', pleaded not guilty to genocide charges during his first appearance at a UN court in Tanzania on Wednesday.
Idelphonse Nizeyimana (dubbed the “Butcher of Butare”), a key suspect in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, has been arrested in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, a spokesman for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda told FRANCE 24.
Armenia and Turkey say they have reached agreement on a plan to establish diplomatic relations and re-open the border after almost a century of distrust and resentment rooted in massacres of Armenians during the First World War.
Armenia and Turkey, who have been enemies for a century, said on Monday through their mediator, Switzerland, that they would begin "internal political consultations" to restore diplomatic ties, to be completed and signed in six weeks.
Tens of thousands of Bosnia's Muslims are expected in the eastern town of Srebrenica to commemorate the massacre at the hands of Serbian forces years ago. There will be a burial ceremony for 534 newly identified victims.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has compared the plight of the Uighurs - a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority in Xinjiang - to genocide, a move that could potentially damage Turkey's relations with China, a key trading partner.
International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo (photo) has appealed against a decision by the court not to charge Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with genocide in the Darfur conflict.
How can a tramatised population come to terms with the devastating genocide in Rwanda, in which nearly 1 million people were murdered? And what challenges remain for the government to reconcile differences and rebuild the country?
In this edition of "The Week in Africa": world powers express concern over a growing political crisis in Niger; the genocide orphans of Rwanda try to get on with life; and genetically modified cotton sparks hopes and fears in Burkina Faso.
