Nairobi, April 12 -- The genocide in Rwanda, in 1994, in which more than a million people were killed in an orgy of violence, may have been averted if available intelligence at the time was acted upon.

The regret on that Rwanda's horrid history was offered on Thursday by a man who had later prosecuted thousands of people who slashed their country people with machetes.

And Dr Aimable Havugiyaremye, the Secretary General of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) of Rwanda wants Africa, and the world, to invest more in intelligence gathering, and acting on it.

Speaking at the third Mashariki Cooperation Conference in Diani, in Kwale County, Havugiyaremye told an audience Rwanda had picked ten crucial lessons from that epis...