Rwandan President Paul Kagame appealed to the country's judges on Monday to remain disciplined and honest in their work and to cooperate closely with other law enforcement bodies, presidential spokesman Nicholas Shalita said on Monday.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) have agreed to undertake 13 issues jointly to speed up judicial processes in the UN courts.

The public affairs section of the US embassy in Kigali will officially launch 24-hour broadcasting in Kinyarwanda, Swahili, French, and English on station 104.3 FM in Kigali on Friday, Rwanda News Agency (RNA) reported on Tuesday. Kigali becomes the second capital city in Africa to receive continuous FM broadcasts.

The Rwandan Batwa pygmy people have demanded respect for their rights, saying that ignorance about their problems is the "biggest evil" to overcome. The president of the Batwa community Zephyrin Kalimba told a conference on the indigenous people of Africa, held in Kigali, that his people had been denied their land rights and evicted from their ancestral homes.

Recently released documents have shown the role of the United States in blocking international action against the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Africa Policy says that the documents reveal the "systematic indifference to African lives", as well as the fact that there has still been no official American investigation of responsibility for US actions and inactions at the time. These, it adds, "are a revealing commentary on the continuity of structural racism embedded in US foreign policy making".