An 82-year-old immigrant accused of participating in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide has pleaded not guilty to charges that he lied about his past to obtain U.S. citizenship.

The family of an 82-year-old immigrant suspected of participating in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide says he’s innocent, contending he was too old and sick to commit atrocities.

Spain grabbed world headlines a decade ago by indicting Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet, and has since probed alleged atrocities as far away as Tibet and Rwanda.

Thousands of Rwandan troops have departed neighboring Congo following an unusual joint military operation but Rwanda’s president said Sunday it wasn’t the end of cooperation between the former enemies.

A U.N. tribunal convicted a former Rwandan military chaplain Friday of attempted rape and genocide for crimes that included killing people who had sought refuge in a seminary.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will embark on a wide-ranging African tour next week in a bid to shore up Congo’s struggling peacekeeping mission, show support for victims of war in Congo and Rwanda and press for progress on climate change.

A Maryland professor accused of genocide should be extradited to Rwanda to face charges, the country’s prosecutor general said Friday, but that’s unlikely because the U.S. does not have an agreement to send suspects there.

Alison Des Forges, who was among the first human rights activists to highlight the ethnic tensions that exploded into the 1994 Rwanda genocide, died in the fiery commuter plane crash outside Buffalo, N.Y. She was 66.

More than 40 members of a Hutu militia suspected of atrocities during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide were killed in an overnight air raid, a Congolese military spokesman said Friday.

More than 40 rebels suspected of atrocities during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide were killed in an overnight air raid, a military spokesman said Friday.