Following attacks on the Tutsi[1] in Rwanda her family fled in 1959 to a refugee camp in Uganda.

She thought if fair the Jean Kambanda received a life sentence and noted that Rwanda was "not looking for revenge".

[3] In 2014 she reported on the good progress that her country had made with regard to improving gender equality.

Rwanda's government is made up of a 64% majority of women, although this proportion is basically reversed in the cabinet.

98% of Rwandan women get antenatal care and girls enrolment in schools exceeds boys and both are up - to over 95%.