Preparations in Rwanda for the commemorations for the 20th anniversary of the genocide were overshadowed by a major spat with France amid renewed allegations that Paris was complicit in the killings.

Twenty years ago, it is said, one person died every 10 seconds over 100 days as genocide gripped Rwanda, says Hannah McNeish.

While Rwanda is remembered for the 1994 genocide, John Hearne looks at how the country has made strides under Paul Kagame, a president not without his share of controversy

Rwanda’s former intelligence chief faces genocide and war crimes charges as his trial begins in France for a 1994 killing spree that left at least a half-million people dead.

IT was an open secret that one of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s worst tormentors, Bosco Ntaganda, lived on Avenue des Tulipés until 2012, crossing into Rwanda now and then despite a travel ban.

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.

The man whose heroism in the face of genocide was portrayed in the film 'Hotel Rwanda' was warned today he could face charges of financing terror.

THE United Nations said acts of genocide may have been committed in the DR Congo as it published a hotly contested report yesterday detailing massacres by foreign armies and rebels in the war-torn nation.

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 man who saved more than 1,200 people during one of the world’s worst genocides will visit Ireland for the first time next month.

A UN war crimes tribunal sentenced a former governor in Rwanda to life in prison today after finding that he was one of the main perpetrators of genocide in the African country in 1994.

A UN court has sentenced the organiser of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that claimed more than 500,000 lives to life in prison.

Aid agencies today warned of a humanitarian catastrophe in the Democratic Republic of Congo after fierce fighting between the government and rebel forces.

FRANCE yesterday accused Rwanda of making “unacceptable accusations” by alleging Paris played an active role in the 1994 genocide, but said it was still determined to mend damaged ties with Kigali.

Roaming bands of government supporters heckled, harassed and threatened people into voting in a run-off election in which Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was the only candidate, ensuring he will remain in power despite international condemnation of the balloting as a sham.

A request to extradite four men accused of playing key roles in the Rwandan genocide has been upheld today.

UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon pledged to step up efforts to prevent another genocide at a ceremony marking the 14th anniversary of the mass slaughter in Rwanda.

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

The Canadian general who headed the United Nations peacekeeping force during the 1994 Rwandan genocide gave a chilling account of how roadblocks popped up like mushrooms and served only to pick out and murder Tutsis.

Three men accused of playing leading roles in the Rwandan genocide of 1994 were today remanded in custody by a British court.

A RWANDAN government-appointed commission launched a probe yesterday into allegations French troops supported soldiers behind Rwanda’s 1994 genocide and helped facilitate mass murder.

A RENOWNED Rwandan singer went on trial yesterday before a UN tribunal, accused of writing lyrics that incited the notorious 1994 genocide in Rwanda, in which 500,000 people were killed in just 100 days.

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.

A RWANDAN community court charged a Belgian missionary with inciting and planning the 1994 genocide that left more than half a million people dead.

Cherie Blair and US first lady Laura Bush were heading for Rwanda today to remember the nation’s genocide and try to learn from it.

Television talk show host Oprah Winfrey and Paul Rusesabagina, whose heroism in the face of genocide inspired the movie Hotel Rwanda, have been named as recipients of the US National Civil Rights Museum’s annual Freedom Awards, officials said today.

A bus crash in southwestern Uganda today killed at least 30 people and injured 21, Ugandan and Rwandan state radios reported.

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.

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.

UNITED NATIONS air and ground patrols have spotted signs of major Rwandan troop movements inside Congo, a move that threatens to reawaken central Africa’s devastating six-nation war.

UN air and ground patrols have spotted signs of major Rwandan troop movements inside Congo – a move than threatens to reawaken central Africa’s devastating six nation war.

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.”

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.

FOREIGN Minister Brian Cowen will represent the European Union today at a ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda.

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.

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.

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.

The United Nations and the Rwandan government today urged refugees from the volcano in eastern Congo to gather in approved camps, where aid agencies could deliver food, water and shelter - but most Congolese just want to go home.