Middle East & Africa | A genocide suspect faces trial

Félicien Kabuga, Africa’s most wanted man, is arrested

But questions remain over how the Rwandan evaded the law for so long

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THE TRAP had been set. American and Kenyan investigators were in position outside a house in a smart Nairobi suburb. But Rwanda’s most notorious fugitive never showed up. When police finally burst in two days later they found not their target, Félicien Kabuga, but blood-spattered walls and the partially acid-dissolved corpse of William Munuhe, an FBI informant. An enterprising hack, Munuhe had promised to lure Mr Kabuga to his house under the pretext of discussing a business deal in exchange for the $5m reward promised by the State Department.

This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “The man who wasn’t there”

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