French judicial officials on Wednesday charged a longtime comrade-in-arms of Rwanda`s president over an assassination in the run-up to the 1994 genocide, as anti-European protests unfolded in Kigali.

French judicial officials on Wednesday charged a longtime comrade-in-arms of Rwanda`s president over an assassination in the run-up to the 1994 genocide, as anti-European protests unfolded in Kigali.

Rose Kabuye, a close associate of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, was placed under judicial investigation Wednesday in France over the April 1994 assassination of then-president Juvenal Habyarimana that preceded the Rwandan genocide, a judicial source said.

French officials took custody Wednesday of an old comrade-in-arms of Rwanda`s president charged over an assassination in the run-up to the 1994 genocide, amid mass anti-European protests in Kigali.

Tens of thousands of people took part Wednesday in the biggest demonstrations seen in Rwanda since the country`s 1994 genocide massacres, protesting against France`s charges against a top aide to President Paul Kagame.

French officials took custody Wednesday of an old comrade-in-arms of Rwanda`s president charged over an assassination in the run-up to the 1994 genocide, amid mass anti-European protests in Kigali.

Rwandan presidential aide Rose Kabuye arrived Wednesday in Paris after being extradited from Germany over an assassination that triggered the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, one of her lawyers said.

She was flown to Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris and was en route for the capital`s law courts, the lawyer said.

Germany extradited to France on Wednesday an old comrade-in-arms of Rwanda`s president over an assassination triggering the 1994 genocide, prosecutors said, amid mass anti-European protests in Kigali.

Acting on a French warrant, German police had arrested Rose Kabuye, now chief of protocol to Rwandan President Paul Kagame, on November 9 as she arrived in Frankfurt.

Tens of thousands poured onto the streets of Kigali Wednesday to condemn France in Rwanda`s biggest post-genocide protests as a top aide to President Paul Kagame was extradited from Germany to Paris.

Rose Kabuye, an aide to Rwanda`s president arrested in Frankfurt on November 9, was extradited on Wednesday to France over an assassination that triggered the 1994 genocide, German prosecutors said.

Germany was to extradite to France on Wednesday an old comrade-in-arms of Rwanda`s president over an assassination that triggered 1994`s genocide, sparking mass anti-European protests in Kigali.

German police acting on a French warrant arrested Rose Kabuye, now a civilian and chief of protocol to Rwandan President Paul Kagame, on November 9 as she arrived in Frankfurt.

Germany was to extradite to France on Wednesday an old comrade-in-arms of Rwanda`s president over an assassination that triggered 1994`s genocide, sparking mass anti-European protests in Kigali.

German police acting on a French warrant arrested Rose Kabuye, now a civilian and chief of protocol to Rwandan President Paul Kagame, on November 9 as she arrived in Frankfurt.

After 14 years of swapping bitter accusations over the causes of a genocide, the arrest of a Rwandan presidential aide has once more brought relations between France and Rwanda to the boil.

After 14 years of swapping bitter accusations over the causes of a genocide, the arrest of a Rwandan presidential aide has once more brought relations between France and Rwanda to the boil.

Germany was to extradite to France Wednesday an aide to Rwanda`s president over an assassination that sparked the 1994 genocide as Rwandans staged mass protests against European interference.

Rose Kabuye, President Paul Kagame`s chief of protocol, was arrested in Frankfurt on November 9 on a French arrest warrant.

Germany was to extradite to France Wednesday an aide to Rwanda`s president over an assassination that sparked the 1994 genocide as Rwandans staged mass protests against European interference.

Rose Kabuye, President Paul Kagame`s chief of protocol, was arrested in Frankfurt on November 9 on a French arrest warrant.

Tens of thousands of Rwandans gathered in Kigali Wednesday to protest against the transfer to France Wednesday of a senior official detained earlier this month in Germany.

Large processions were converging towards the German embassy and the local offices of Germany`s national braodcaster, Deutsche Welle, an AFP correspondent reported.

Tens of thousands of Rwandans gathered in Kigali Wednesday to protest against the transfer to France Wednesday of a senior official detained earlier this month in Germany.

Large processions were converging towards the German embassy and the local offices of Germany`s national braodcaster, Deutsche Welle, an AFP correspondent reported.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Monday that Europe had shown `total contempt` for his country by arresting one of his key aides suspected of involvement in the death of a former ruler.

Rwanda is one of the sub-Saharan African nations most affected by the dreaded HIV/AIDS epidemic that is killing millions of African citizens. Of the eight million people in Rwanda, approximately 400,000 are affected with the virus. President Paul Kagame has made strides since his election in 2000 to helping those within his nation who have AIDS as well as working to prevent HIV infections. Kagame has been lauded by many in the international community for the strides he is taking in trying to combat this world-wide epidemic.

KIGALI, Oct 19, 2007 (AFP) - Rwanda called on France on Friday to extradite a Rwandan wanted for his alleged role in the country's 1994 genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Dominique Ntawukuriryayo, a former sub-prefect in the southern Gisagara region during the mass killings, was arrested by French police in Carcassonne, south-west France, Interpol said Thursday.

The ICTR has charged him with genocide, complicity in genocide and incitement to commit genocide by the UN tribunal.

LYON, France, Oct 18, 2007 (AFP) - A Rwandan wanted for his alleged role in the country's 1994 genocide has been arrested in France, Interpol announced Thursday.

Dominique Ntawukuriryayo, a former sub-prefect in Rwanda, had been on a list of people wanted by the international police agency since November 2006.

He was arrested by French police in Carcassonne in the southwest of France, although the exact date of his arrest was not released.

KIGALI, Oct 12, 2007 (AFP) - The mandate of a Rwandan inquiry commission on France's role in the 1994 genocide was extended for a third time, commission president Jean de Dieu Mucyo said Friday.

'This extension was approved by the government at the demand of the Rwandan parliament,' Mucyo said of the new extension stretching until November 15.

Composed of historians and jurists, the commmision is tasked with gathering proof of France's alleged implication in Rwanda's genocide that killed some 800,000 people, most of them minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

GOMA, DR Congo, Oct 12, 2007 (AFP) - Renewed fighting broke out Friday in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Nord-Kivu province where the army killed 19 renagade troops and three of its own men were wounded, the regional military chief said.

'This morning we recaptured two villages between Mweso and Kitchanga,' said General Vainqueur Mayala, who commands regular army (FARDC) troops in the east.

GOMA, DR Congo, Oct 12, 2007 (AFP) - Renewed fighting broke out Friday between the regular army and renegade troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Nord-Kivu province, a local spokesman with the UN mission in DRC said.

'Clashes have been reported from Katsiru, a village between Mweso and Kitchanga,' almost 70 kilometres (45 miles) north of the provincial capital Goma, which lies on the Rwandan border, MONUC spokesman Claude Cyrille said.

KIGALI, Oct 11, 2007 (AFP) - A Rwandan court convicted a former official now living in Belgium of rape and incitement to rape, months after he was acquitted of genocide by the UN tribunal, state media reported Thursday.

The criminal court in the southern Rusizi district on Wednesday handed down a life sentence to Emmanuel Bagambiki, governor of Cyangugu in the south during the 1994 genocide, said Radio Rwanda.

'Bagambiki was found guilty of having raped girls and women and of having incited others to do so,' the station reported.

MONTREAL, Oct 5, 2007 (AFP) - Canada has become the first country to notify the World Trade Organization that it has agreed to allow a Canadian company to make generic medicines for export, the world body said Friday.

'The WTO received from Canada, on 4 October 2007, the first notification from any government that it has authorized a company to make a generic version of a patented medicine for export under special WTO provisions agreed in 2003,' the WTO said in a statement.

BLACKPOOL, England, Oct 3, 2007 (AFP) - Western action is long overdue to halt the violence and human suffering in Sudan's Darfur region, Rwandan President Paul Kagame told AFP.

Kagame, a fierce critic of Western inaction over the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, urged world powers to use their might and influence as quickly as possible to put a stop to the unrest in the troubled western region of Sudan.

KIGALI, Sept 25, 2007 (AFP) - Rwanda's public prosecutor on Tuesday welcomed the possible extradition by Britain of four Rwandan exiles accused of crimes against humanity over the genocide in the country 13 years ago.

'This is a sign of goodwill,' Martin Ngoga told AFP in Kigali a day after prosecutors in London began outlining the extradition case against the four Rwandan suspects.

'There is no doubt a hope that all the suspected genocide perpetrators in Europe will be apprehended before long,' he said.

LONDON, Sept 24, 2007 (AFP) - Prosecutors in London on Monday began outlining the extradition case against four Rwandan exiles accused of crimes against humanity over the genocide in their home country 13 years ago.

Vincent Bajinya, Charles Munyaneza, Emmanuel Nteziryayo and Celestin Ugirashebuja were all said to be complicit in the slaughter of thousands of ethnic Tutsis in the six-week orgy of violence by Hutus in 1994.

NEW YORK, Sept 24, 2007 (AFP) - The foreign ministers of France and Rwanda met here Monday in the first encounter at this level between the two countries since Kigali broke off diplomatic ties with Paris in November 2006, diplomats said.

'They are meeting now,' a Rwandan diplomat said, referring to Bernard Kouchner of France and his Rwandan counterpart Charles Murigande. French diplomats confirmed that the meeting was under way.

ARUSHA, Tanzania, Sept 20, 2007 (AFP) - The UN war crimes court for Rwanda is working with German authorities to extradite a genocide suspect arrested near Frankfurt this week, a spokesman said Thursday.

Augustin Ngirabatware, Rwanda's ex-planning minister, was arrested on Monday under a warrant issued by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) which wants him for his role in the 1994 genocide that killed some 800,000 people.

PARIS, Sept 19, 2007 (AFP) - A Paris appeals court on Wednesday ordered the release of two Rwandans sought on genocide charges by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

Wenceslas Munyeshyaka, a 49-year-old Catholic priest, and Laurent Bucyibaruta, 62, a former government official, had been detained in France for a second time on September 6 on new warrants issued by the ICTR.

They were first detained on July 20.

'The court ordered your release on probation,' said presiding judge Edith Boizette.

FRANKFURT, Sept 19, 2007 (AFP) - A former Rwandan cabinet minister wanted for war crimes committed during the 1994 genocide in the African state has been arrested in Germany, police said on Wednesday.

The former planning minister is suspected of encouraging the mass murder of members of Rwanda's Tutsi minority by arming the Hutu majority, a spokeswoman for the federal police said.

She said the 50-year-old suspect was arrested near the western city of Frankfurt on Monday at the request of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept 19, 2007 (AFP) - A former Rwandan cabinet minister wanted for war crimes committed during the 1994 genocide in the African state has been arrested in Germany, police said on Wednesday.

The former planning minister is suspected of encouraging the mass murder of members of Rwanda's Tutsi minority by arming the Hutu majority, a spokeswoman for the federal police said.

She said the 50-year-old suspect was arrested near the western city of Frankfurt on Monday, at the request of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 14, 2007 (AFP) - The UN Security Council voted unanimously Friday to reappoint Hassan Bubacar Jallow of Gambia to another four-year term as UN war crimes prosecutor for Rwanda.

But Jallow's second tenure, which begins Saturday, may end sooner by the 15-member council if the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) completes its work by the 2010 target date.