Early election results show President Paul Kagame is heading for a landslide victory, the chairman of Rwanda’s electoral commission said today.

When presidential hopeful Victoire Ingabire, a Hutu, returned to Rwanda after a long absence she immediately visited a memorial to Tutsis killed in the 1994 genocide and asked why Hutus who also died were not remembered.

A top suspect wanted for orchestrating the killings of thousands of people in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide – including children, hospital patients, priests and even an elderly and revered African queen – has been captured, police said.

The UN refugee agency says 536,000 people have been chased from their homes in eastern Congo this year as a result of clashes between government forces and rebels linked to neighbouring Rwanda’s 1994 genocide.

The Rwandan army has arrested Congo rebel leader Laurent Nkunda, a military spokesman said today.

A ceasefire called by Congo rebels appeared to be unravelling today.

The investigative arm of the United Nations mission in Congo has opened an investigation into allegations that a unit of Indian peacekeepers stationed there were trafficking gold.

The investigative arm of the UN mission in Congo has opened an investigation into allegations that a unit of Indian peacekeepers stationed there were trafficking gold, a spokesman said.

A Catholic nun is beginning a 30-year jail sentence for helping militia kill hundreds of people hiding in a hospital during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, an official said today. Theophister Mukakibibi was sentenced by a court in Nairobi, Kenya, for helping Hutu militiamen to kill ethnic Tutsis seeking refuge from the slaughter in Butare hospital where she worked.

With thousands of people gathered in Central Park to protest against the violence in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan, one speaker likened the destruction there to the Holocaust.

Trial in Africa is too risky for a man accused of fomenting bloodshed across West Africa, international prosecutors said in requesting that Charles Taylor’s trial for crimes against humanity be moved to The Hague in the Netherlands.

A former Rwandan government minister who was indicted on charges of involvement in the 1994 genocide was found dead floating in a Brussels canal, officials said today.

Rwanda marks the anniversary of the 1994 genocide today with the beginning of a week of mourning for the more than 500,000 people who died in a frenzy of killing that remains fresh in the minds of the survivors.

Belgium is dispatching a special envoy to central Africa in an attempt to calm rising tension in the region following the weekend massacre of at least 160 refugees at a UN camp in Burundi.

Helen Vesperini, Jenda

Survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda gathered on a hillside today to bury the remains of hundreds of victims recovered from mass graves to mark the 10th anniversary of the government-orchestrated slaughter that left more than 500,000 people dead.

A Rwandan court has convicted 18 people for their role in the killing of 20,000 men, women and children sheltering in a church compound during the 1994 genocide.

Four senior cabinet ministers from the former Rwandan government went on trial today before a UN tribunal for helping plan and instigate the 1994 genocide that left more than 500,000 people dead.

Rwanda’s presidential election was marred by irregularities, including some instances of President Paul Kagame’s agents telling people to vote for him, the leading EU election observer has said.

Paul Kagame took a decisive lead early today in Rwanda’s first serious presidential elections, capturing more than 94% of the vote with half the districts reporting, elections officials said.

Rwandans were voting today in their first presidential election since about 800,000 people were slaughtered in the 1994 genocide.

RWANDAN president Paul Kagame is “unapologetic” about the role his troops have played in the war in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo and has said he would send them back in if his country’s security were at stake.

THE leaders of Congo and Rwanda signed a peace agreement yesterday that was hailed as a major milestone in efforts to end a war that has destabilised central Africa and killed millions of people.

Newsweek magazine won the top honours today at the US National Magazine Awards ceremony, beating its rival Time and others for the general excellence prize in the over-two million circulation category.

Two Rwandan nuns were today found guilty in a landmark Belgian trial of war crimes during the 1994 genocide in their central African nation.