This article is very brief, but gives an update on the progress of the tribunal against Augustin Ngirabatware. Ngirabatware was arrested at the request of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Germany in late 2007. The ICTR issued a warrant for his arrest in 2001 on charges related to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Ngirabatware made his first appearance before the ICTR the day after this article was published, and denied all charges against him.

Rwanda genocide suspect moved to Africa

(CNN) -- A former top Rwandan official charged for his alleged role in genocide during the 1990s has been transferred to a U.N. detention facility in Africa.

Augustin Ngirabatware, the country's former minister of planning, was moved from Frankfurt, Germany on Wednesday to a U.N. detention facility in Arusha, Tanzania, according to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He was arrested in Germany on September 17, 2007.

Ngirabatware is charged with nine counts, including genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the Geneva Conventions.

The tribunal says he will soon make his initial appearance before the court, but did not give a date.

About 830,000 Rwandans, both minority Tutsis and majority Hutus with moderate political views, were killed by Hutu extremists during the 1994 genocide.

The killings began April 7, 1994, the day after a plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi was shot out of the sky with a missile as it prepared to land in the Rwandan capital of Kigali.