A FORMER Rwandan women’s empowerment minister has become the first woman to be found guilty of genocide and incitement to rape by an international tribunal.

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.

POLICE in Uganda have arrested one of the most wanted suspects from Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, Idelphonse Nizeyimana, police confirmed yesterday.

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.

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.