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

Surrounded by insurgent fighters, the leader of Congo’s rebels held his first public rally today in newly conquered territory, telling the few thousand people who showed up “not to be afraid”.

BRITISH Foreign Secretary David Miliband said yesterday he has not ruled out sending troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of a United Nations bid to avert a looming humanitarian disaster.

US President George Bush insisted today his administration is actively engaged in resolving turmoil in Africa, but said his trip to the continent is focused more on its successes than its conflicts.

A Spanish judge started proceedings against 40 members of the Rwandan military today on charges of terrorism and genocide.

THE chief of staff to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Joseph Kabila has been assaulted and robbed in northwest London, outside a TV studio.

John Hurt, star of Rwandan genocide film Shooting Dogs, has defended the movie at its UK premiere.

A British-German film about the 1994 Rwandan genocide premiered in the country’s capital tonight, where it was shot in its entirety.

AFTER the horror of the genocide in which some 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered in just 100 days, the world vowed ‘never again’.

RENEWED attempts to justify the atom bombing of two Japanese cities, sixty years ago this month, have a lot in common with the Holocaust deniers.

TWO Rwandan businessmen accused of key roles in the killings of thousands of people during their country’s 1994 massacre appeared in court yesterday in the second Rwanda genocide trial held in Belgium.

Rwandans reburied the bodies of more than 20,000 victims of the 1994 genocide who had been dumped in mass graves as the country marked the 11th anniversary of the massacre.

War weary Congo was plunged into conflict again tonight and a Cabinet minister in the east of the African nation said “We are being attacked by Rwandan troops.”

Rwanda has sent thousands of troops into Congo in recent days, a Western diplomat said today.

A contingent of Rwandan troops is heading to Darfur this weekend – the first foreign soldiers to deploy in western Sudan, where thousands of people have been killed in violence some are calling a genocide.

TO describe 11-year-old twins Cynthia and Sonia Dushime as being lucky wouldn’t tell the true story of their tragic lives.

WITH Western leaders conspicuous by their absence, Rwanda marked the 10th anniversary of the genocide of 800,000 people yesterday as bewildered and angry as ever at the world’s failure to stop one of the 20th century’s worst crimes.

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.

Ten years ago, Verena Mukarugambwa was running for her life as Hutu extremists unleashed a 100-day killing spree that tore apart the small central African nation of Rwanda.

The United Nations tribunal for Rwanda today convicted a former senior military officer of genocide and acquitted two other suspects, including a former transport minister, a tribunal spokesman said in Arusha, Tanzania.

Nine years after Hutu extremists tried to wipe out minority Tutsis, Rwandans have voted overwhelmingly for a Tutsi president, with 95.05% casting ballots for incumbent Paul Kagame in the country’s first real presidential election, the electoral commission 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.

More than 10,000 terrified civilians were sheltering at a United Nations compound in north-east Congo today as a fierce battle raged around them.

IT has been called the Belgian Congo, the Congo, Zaire and more recently the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

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

A Belgian jury was today beginning its deliberations on four Rwandans - two men and two nuns - accused of war crimes in the central African homeland.

A Belgian jury was today beginning its deliberations on four Rwandans - two men and two nuns - accused of war crimes in the central African homeland.

Jury selection began today in a landmark trial at which four people including two Roman Catholic nuns are accused of aiding and abetting the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.