Bernard Ntaganda, a Rwandan opposition politician who intends to run in the August presidential poll, has been removed as the head of his party PS Imberakuri, state radio reported Thursday. "The decision was taken to remove him" at an extraordinary meeting in Kigali, the party's deputy chief Christine Mukabunane said. Mukabunane, little known on the Rwandan political scene, will ...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Thursday reduced the life sentence handed down on a former Rwandan public prosecutor and ex-ICTR staffer to 40 years. Simeon Nshamihigo, a 50-year-old ethnic Hutu, was at the time of the genocide deputy public prosecutor in the south western Rwandan town of Cyangugu. When he was arrested in May 2001, he was ...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Thursday upheld the 15-year prison sentence handed down on the famous Rwandan singer Simon Bikindi. On December 2, 2008 Bikindi was found guilty of direct public incitement to commit genocide for a speech he made from a vehicle equipped with loudspeakers in late June 1994 on a road in northwestern Rwanda. "The ...

More than 600 Rwandan Hutu rebels have been killed or captured since January in an operation backed by the UN mission to the country, the Congolese army said Wednesday. A total of 609 members of the rebel Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) had been "neutralised since the start of operation Amani Leo, on January 1, and a ...