The half-built genocide museum in Kigali stands bone white against the lush hills of Rwanda's capital, its unfinished windows staring out at the city. The dark interior of the memorial is as hollow as the thousands of human skulls it soon will hold. For now, they are stacked crudely in a corrugated-iron shed with row upon row of bones, neatly separated into piles of arms and legs. Several cavernous concrete tombs contain more remains of tens of thousands of Rwandans killed in the 1994 genocide, when as many as 800,000 Tutsi and Hutu moderates died in this tiny Central African country. The remains are to be sorted and put in glass display cases in the new museum, complete with tiled floors, library, video presentations and cafeteria. There will be a lengthy list of names of the dead, ages and personal details.

Genocide convict George Ruggiu, a former journalist at Radio Television Libres des Mille Collines (RTLM), today testified before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) that after 6 April 1994 journalists at the radio station relied on information from soldiers and militiamen for their broadcasts.

After a five-week hiatus following the lava flows from Mt Nyiragongo that caused widespread damage in the town on 17 January, classes will resume as scheduled on Monday, 25 February, for the schoolchildren of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

A witness testifying in the so-called "Media Trial" today admitted to judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR that he received thousands of dollars when he served as an informant for the prosecution. The witness -- identified only as " X" -- has been granted special protection measures and is testifying via tele-conference from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague, Netherlands.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has distributed about 2,100 mt of food to over 442,400 vulnerable people in and around Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since the beginning of its emergency operation in the wake of the lava flows from Mt Nyiragongo on 17 January, the agency reported on Friday.

The 1994 genocide left just over a million people dead, according to an official report published by the Rwandan Ministry of Local Government. The report is based on a census carried out in July 2000. However, only 934,218 victims could be clearly identified.

The Church did not play an active role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, a Catholic priest testifying for genocide suspects Elizaphan and Gerard Ntakirutimana told the International Criminal tribunal for Rwanda.

Three weeks after Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was inundated by lava flows from Mt Nyiragongo, the future of this town of some 400,000 people remains precarious.

A Rwandan Roman Catholic priest wanted on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity has given himself up to the international tribunal for Rwanda based in the Tanzanian town of Arusha.

Amnesty International have called for the immediate and unconditional release of three peace and reconciliation activists - Laurien Ntezimana, Didace Muremangingo and Ignace Ndayahundwa - arrested by police and held at Butare central prison, southern Rwanda, on 27 January and 2 February.

Former Rwandan prime minister Faustin Twagiramungu testified on Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda as the first defence witness for Elizaphan Ntakirutimana and his son, Gerard who stand accused of crimes against humanity and genocide, the tribunal reported.

In 1996, Rwanda's fertility index was one of the highest in the world, the product of a culture in which families of all social backgrounds typically have many children. Rwanda's 1994 genocide, which claimed an estimated 800,000 lives over the course of 100 days, left permanent scars on Rwanda, its culture, and its children.

The United Nations tribunal for Rwanda said it plans to introduce new measures to speed up genocide trials to fend off mounting criticism from survivors of the 1994 massacres.

Ntezimana, an official with the Association Modeste et Innocent (AMI), an organisation promoting non violence in Rwanda, and director of its magazine Ubuntu, and Mr Muremangingo, chief editor of Ubuntu, were arrested on 26 and 27 January, respectively, in Butare and detained in the city's central prison. While the reason for the arrests remains unclear, Mr Ntezimana and Mr Muremangingo have reportedly been questioned over the activities of their organisation and their use of the word "ubuyanja", a term which was also used by former president Pastor Bizimungu in setting up an opposition party that is now outlawed.

Rwandan authorities should make public any charges against two Catholic lay figures arrested over the weekend and release them promptly if there is no adequate legal reason for their detention, say Human Rights Watch.

The registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Adama Dieng, has urged associations of genocide survivors to reconsider a decision to suspend cooperation with the tribunal, ICTR officials confirmed to IRIN on Monday.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has released a CD-ROM containing the decisions and papers from the court's first five years of operation, the first such conference tool the UN has produced in international criminal justice, the world body reported on Thursday.

Rwandan authorities should immediately investigate the murder of Gratien Munyarubuga, a founder of the opposition Democratic Party for Renewal-Ubuyanja, and end harassment of other opposition and press figures, Human Rights Watch have said.

Belgian's final court of appeal, the Cour de Cassation, rejected on Wednesday the appeals for a retrial by a Rwandan businessman and two Rwandan nuns sentenced to prison in Brussels on 8 June 2001 for war crimes committed during the 1994 genocide.