Arusha, 8 May 2008 (FH) - Tanzanian police in collaboration with the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) security have launched a manhunt for a controversial protected witness who mysteriously disappeared on Tuesday from a safe house in Arusha.

Arusha, 8 May 2008 (FH) - Johann Swinnen, Belgium Ambassador to Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, deplored Thursday before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) the lack of serious investigations into the attack against the plane of President Juvénal Habyarimana on April 6, 1994 which triggered the genocide.

Kigali, 8 May 2008 (FH) - The semi-traditional Gacaca Court of Kigali district has sentenced to 30 years two persons implicated in the murder of a family of seven during the 1994 genocide, reports Hirondelle Agency.

Kigali, 7May 2008 (FH) - Laurent Hitabatuma, about sixty years old, has been convicted by the semi-traditional Gacaca court, Ubumwe Cell ,Muhima Sector, in Kigali, for looting goods from the victims of the 1994 genocide, reports the Hirondelle Agency.

Arusha, 7 May 2008 (FH) - A protected witness who was to re-testify before the Arusha-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to confess to false testimony, suddenly disappeared on Tuesday just some few hours before his appearance , reports Hirondelle Agency.