Rwanda

HARARE - A Rwandan national, Samuel Habimana, was brutally murdered in his home by armed robbers in Harare on Friday night. The incident has sent shockwaves through the Rwandan community, with many believing it was an assassination orchestrated by the regime of President Paul Kagame in Kigali.

The Committee to Protect Journalists on Wednesday expressed alarm at reports that Dieudonné Niyonsenga had been tortured in a Rwandan prison and called on authorities to unconditionally release the journalist, who is serving a seven-year sentence.

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has travelled to neighbouring Uganda to take part in the birthday celebrations of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba. This trip to Uganda, Mr Kagame's first in four years, is being seen as a sign of a cooling of tensions between the two countries.

The alleged financier of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Felicien Kabuga, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday as he made his first appearance at a UN court after a quarter of a century on the run.

A Rwandan court has handed a life sentence to a former politician found guilty of orchestrating the killing of tens of thousands of people during the 1994 genocide in the country, a court spokesman said.

Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire announced Saturday she was launching a new political party, hoping it will be allowed to operate in a country where the ruling regime has no real rival.

Two suspects have been arrested in Rwanda in connection with the killing of a prominent opposition politician.

A woman who died this month of Ebola may have carried the disease into Rwanda, Reuters news agency quotes the World Health Organization as saying.