Former Rwandan politician Leon Mugesera, who was extradited from Canada in 2012, has been jailed for life over his role in the 2004 genocide.

The former official with the then-ruling Hutu party described Tutsis as "cockroaches" and called for their extermination, during a speech in 1992.

Mr Mugesera worked as a lecturer in Quebec province and lost a 12-year legal battle to avoid extradition from Canada.

Over 800,000 Tutsis were killed in the genocide by Hutu militias.

 The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation reaffirmed its support to the peoples of Palestine and Jammu and Kashmir for the realisation of their right to self-determination.

In a joint communique issued on Friday, the OIC called on India to implement the UN resolutions on Kashmir, adding that the disposition of the State of Jammu and Kashmir must be made in accordance of the United Nations Security Council resolutions and aspirations of the Kashmiri people.

A Bosnian Serb suspeced of carrying out crimes against humanity is to be extradited to Sarajevo to face charges after a court in France ruled in favour of hte extradition.

The man, Radomir Susjnar, was arrested in Paris in April 2014. He was a member of a Bosnian Serb paramilitary group that was responsible for the murder of 59 Bosnian Muslims in 1992 in Visegrad and has been accused of incarcerating the victims inside a house before setting it alight.

Iraqi Kurds have launched their own .krd domain name for an independent cyber region for Kurdistan, reports Reuters.

The .krd domain name was granted in 2013 by the US based non-profit organisation which regulates the domains, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

"Those who imprisoned us within these geographical boundaries do not have the same leverage in cyberspace. In the internet we choose our own borders," the individual responsible for securing international recognition of the .krd domain, Hiwa Afandi told Reuters.

Nigeria's military secretly buried more than 300 Shia Muslims in a mass grave, according to officials, prompting Amnesty International to call for an investigation.

Officials in the state of Kaduna told an inquiry that soldiers took bodies from a morgue to a bush site following a crackdown on a pro-Iranian sect, the BBC reports.

The raid in December followed accusations the sect had tried to assassinate the army chief, which it denies.

South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar has returned to his country as part of a peace deal struck with President Salva Kiir's government.

His spokesman told the BBC that Mr Machar was now at rebel military headquarters in the eastern town of Pagak. the first time he has entere the country in two years.

He is expected in the capital Juba next week to resume the post of vice-president as part of the deal finalised last year.

Officials at UK immigration have been hacking into the phones of asylum seekers over the past three years, The Independent reported this week.

The officials have been doing through an amendment to the 1997 Police Act, which now allows them to conduct "property interference, including interference with equipment." Specifically, this reportedly allows the installation of listening devices into the homes or cars of refugees, as well as at detention centres, the paper reported.

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, marking International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda, on Tuesday stressed the need to prevent genocide by fighting "genocide ideology".

“It is essential that Governments, the judiciary and civil society stand firm against hate speech and those who incite division and violence,” Mr Ban said whilst addressing a remembrance event at the UN General Assembly.