A FRENCH appeals court rejected a Rwandan request to extradite alleged mass-killing mastermind Agathe Habyarimana, widow of the Rwandan president whose death sparked the 1994 genocide.

The widow of Rwanda’s former president, wanted in connection with the country’s 1994 genocide, has won her court appeal against extradition from France.

FRENCH authorities yesterday arrested the widow of the former Rwandan president whose assassination in a plane crash is believed to have precipitated the 1994 genocide.

The widow of the former Rwandan president whose death sparked the country’s 1994 massacres was arrested on genocide charges in France today.