A Rwandan man detained in France for his suspected involvement in the country's 1994 genocide was charged Thursday with committing crimes against humanity and genocide, judicial sources told AFP. Tito Barahira, the former mayor of Kabarondo in central Rwanda, is suspected of having played a key role in the massacre of Tutsis in the town's church. He was detained Wednesday in the French city of Toulouse, just days after a French court for the first time ordered a Rwandan, former army captain Pascal Simbikangwa, to face trial over the genocide, which saw some 800,000 killed.

A French court has for the first time ordered a Rwandan to face trial over the country's 1994 genocide, 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 complicity in crimes against humanity but can still appeal the decision in an attempt to avoid the trial. It was not immediately clear if his lawyers would file an appeal.

KIGALI (Reuters) - A grenade blast in the Rwandan capital Kigali on Tuesday killed one person and injured eight others, a police spokesman said, in an attack reminiscent of similar incidents beginning in 2010. The grenade exploded in the early evening between a bus station and a market in the Kimironko area of Kigali, the spokesman said. Police later said on their Twitter site that two suspects had been arrested.

Dutch prosecutors on Wednesday appealed a Rwandan-born woman's six-year sentence for inciting genocide, insisting she deserved harsher punishment because she was a "co-perpetrator" of the 1994 massacres in the central African nation. In the first such conviction, a court in the Netherlands earlier this month sentenced Yvonne Basebya, a 66-year-old Dutch citizen, to six years and eight months for her role in the slaughter of almost a million people, committed by Hutu extremists against minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus.