COUNTRY GETS FIRST FEMALE CHIEF JUSTICE
By Nasra Bishumba, Kigali

December 10, 2003 – (The Monitor - Kampala) Rwanda's senate has elected Ms Aloysia Cyanzaire as Rwanda's first female chief justice.

Cyanzaire previously headed the Gacaca traditional courts established to try the less serious cases of the 1994 genocide and relieve pressure on the judiciary.

The senate, sitting yesterday, also elected the former minister of Justice, Mr Jean de Dieu Mucyo, as Rwanda's new Prosecutor General.

Mucyo was one of only two ministers dropped in President Paul Kagame's recent Cabinet reshuffle.

In the same elections, the former Prosecutor General, Mr Gerald Gahima, was elected the vice president of the Supreme Court.

Mr Martin Ngoga, who has been Rwanda's representative to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for the past four years, was elected as assistant Prosecutor General.

Some 12 new judges - five women and seven men - were also named to Rwanda's Supreme Court during the same function.

The new judges include Mr Jean Mutsinzi, the former president of the Supreme Court and his former deputy, Mr Paul Ruyenzi.

From: http://allafrica.com/stories/200312100080.html