rwanda: New Rwanda prosecutor named

A Gambian judge is to be nominated by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as the new chief prosecutor for the Rwanda genocide court. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced Hassan Jallow, 52, a former Gambian Supreme Court judge and solicitor general, as his choice. The tribunal, based in Arusha in northern Tanzania, was set up in 1995 to investigate the massacre of some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus by Hutu extremists in 1994.