BBC News with Iain Purdon

Rwanda has failed to secure the

extradition

from France of the former Rwandan First Lady Agathe Habyarimana. She's accused of being a chief architect of the 1994 genocide that followed the death of her husband. A French appeal court ruled that the

indictment

against her of genocide and crimes against humanity was too vague. Grant Ferrett reports.

Agathe Habyarimana smiled as she left the courtroom in Paris. She told reporters she'd always had faith in French justice. Mrs Habyarimana, who's lived in France for more than 15 years, was accused of involvement in planning the genocide, in which an estimated 800,000 people were murdered. Human rights organisations say she was a member of an elite Hutu group which

masterminded

the killings, an allegation she

emphatically

denies. Rwanda's justice minister told the BBC his country respected the judgment.

The International Red Cross in Somalia says it's in the final stages of preparing to distribute food aid to more than a million victims of the famine. The operation will involve 17,000 tonnes of supplies being taken by truck from the capital Mogadishu.

It'll take around two weeks for the convoy to reach its destination in areas under the control of the Islamist militant group al-Shabab.

The online retailer Amazon has launched a new

tablet computer

, the Kindle Fire, to rival Apple's hugely successful iPad. The Kindle Fire is cheaper than the Apple iPad, but it has a smaller screen and no