After eight weeks of debates and 12 hours of deliberation, the jury of the Brussels 'Cour d'Assises' [Crown Court] in Belgium declared four Rwandans guilty or partially guilty of war crimes committed during the 1994 genocide. The announcement came at 0230 (local time) on Friday morning. The sentences will be pronounced on Friday afternoon. The four - Vincent Ntezimana, 39, a former professor at Butare university; Alphonse Higaniro, 52, the former director of a match factory; and two nuns Consolata Mukangango, 42, and Julienne Mukabutera, 36, known as sisters Gertrude and Maria Kisito - face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

A former MP is among 10 people sentenced to death in a ruling on genocide by a court in the northwestern town of Gisenyi, Rwandan radio reported on Saturday. It said Wellars Banzi, who was an MP under the former regime and an ex-chairman of the Mouvement republicain national pour le developpement (MRND), was among 54 people on trial for genocide. Twenty three others were sentenced to life imprisonment. He was found guilty of "inciting ethnic division" through articles he wrote for the extremist 'Kangura' newspaper.