Zambia and Rwanda are to work together to bring suspects of the 1994 genocide to trial. Zambian President Rupiah Banda joined his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame to announce the plan on Tuesday.

Rwanda believes dozens of suspects fled after the civil war between its ethnic Hutu and Tutsi communities. They are thought to have gone to countries including Zambia, Mozambique and Malawi.

The Rwandan authorities are calling on those countries to do more to hunt down and extradite those responsible for the genocide and civil war.

Rwandan genocide suspects are tried by a special United Nations court, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, which sits in Arusha in Tanzania.

photo: Rupiah Banda (flickr / United Nations)