A spokesman for the 3,000 Rwandan rebels being prepared by the Congolese Government for their eventual repatriation says a dialogue between the rebels and the Rwandan government needs to take place before they can return home.

The United States government is under fire following the release this week of declassified papers proving that Washington knew about Rwanda's impending 1994 genocide but did nothing to stop it.

A member of the Akazu, the inner circle of former president of Rwanda, Juvenal Habyrimana, and also the president's brother-in-law, was arrested on Thursday at the request of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), an ICTR statement said.

The School of Journalism and Communication at the National University of Rwanda is looking for a lecturer for the 2001-02 academic year, beginning October 2001 for different undergraduate courses. Courses include Basic Skills for Media Writing; Writing for Broadcast Media and Broadcast production.

Rwanda has asked that the four former International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) defence investigators, recently sacked by the Tribunal on suspicion that they played a part in Rwanda's 1994 genocide, be arrested and tried, the Rwanda News Agency (RNA) reported on Thursday.