Arrests Rwanda

Rwanda announced the arrest of a journalist who allegedly led a radio hate campaign that helped fuel the 1994 genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were slaughtered. "Valerie Bemeriki was arrested in northwest Rwanda late last week. She will be prosecuted for genocide and crimes against humanity," Justice Minister Jean de Dieu Mucyo said.

In a secretive nighttime military operation, Gabon has returned 168 Rwandan refugees to their homeland, where most of the men in the group were immediately arrested, a U.

Rwandan troops fought with guns and bombs for an eighth day to neutralize rebel invaders in the north of their tiny East African country, diplomats said.