The M23 rebel movement active in the troubled east of the Democratic Republic of Congo said Thursday it would only resume peace talks if the government signs up to a ceasefire. M23 political leader Bertrand Bisimwa told AFP that DR Congo government forces and the Hutu rebel group the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) were advancing on two fronts "and we don't know what their intentions are." "Our delegation will return to Kampala if -- and only if -- the government agrees to sign a ceasefire with us immediately, " he said.

A French court has for the first time ordered a Rwandan to face trial over the country's 1994 genocide that saw some 800,000 people killed, a judicial source told AFP on Tuesday. Pascal Simbikangwa, a former Rwandan army captain arrested on the French island of Mayotte in 2008, is facing charges of complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity. His lawyers refused to comment on the case when contacted by AFP, and it was not immediately clear whether they would appeal the ruling in a bid to avoid trial. They have 10 days to do so.

A grenade attack near a market and a bus station in Kigali Tuesday killed one person and left another eight wounded, Rwandan police spokesman Theos Badege said. "We have eight wounded and one dead," he said, adding that the blast went off at 1640 GMT near the Kimironko market in the capital Kigali. "We have arrested two people and investigators are currently interrogating them," he told AFP. "It's a very busy area. They were apparently trying to cause maximum casualties." He did not elaborate on the identity of the suspected perpetrators of the attack or their motives.

A court in the Netherlands on Friday jailed Rwandan-born Yvonne Basebya for inciting genocide in the central African nation in 1994, the first such conviction by a Dutch court. "The court orders the suspect jailed for six years and eight months," judge Rene Elkerbout said, acquitting her of other charges including war crimes and genocide perpetration. Basebya, 66, faced a total of six charges before The Hague's district court for her role in the slaughter of almost a million people, committed by Hutu extremists against Tutsis and moderate Hutus.