Rwandan genocide suspect transferred

A former Rwandan provincial governor, who is suspected of playing a key role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, has been transferred to a detention centre at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, northern Tanzania.

UN officials in the Rwandan capital Kigali, said that Francois Karera was arrested on Saturday in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and charged with complicity in genocide and extermination.

Mr Karera served as governor of Kigali Rural province between the months of April to July 1994 when the ethnic Hutu majority massacred hundreds of thousands of Tutsis.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service