A fourth man accused of playing a leading role in the Rwandan genocide of 1994 appeared briefly before a court in Britian today, and was remanded in custody.

Talk show host Oprah Winfrey and Paul Rusesabagina, whose heroism in the face of genocide inspired the movie Hotel Rwanda, received the US National Civil Rights Museum’s 2005 Freedom Awards.

ON Tuesday last, in the course of a Morning Ireland discussion on the Government sending troops to New Orleans, I inadvertently used the term “boy scouts to the Somme” while attempting to make an analogy.

IT IS disappointing that some commentators view the dispatch of a small, UN-backed military force to the town of Bunia as a sufficient response to the horrors currently plaguing the Ituri region of the Congo.