Berlin - A senior Rwandan official, Rose Kabuye, who has been arrested in Germany on a European warrant, has agreed to be extradited to France, a justice official said Monday in Frankfurt.

Kabuye, 47, is chief of protocol to Rwandan President Paul Kagame and a leading member of his Rwandan Patriotic Front.

After her Sunday detention when she landed in Frankfurt, Rwandan authorities immediately summoned the German ambassador in Kigali to protest.

Frankfurt - A senior Rwandan official, Rose Kabuye, 47, who has been detained in Germany, has agreed to her extradition to France on murder and terrorism charges, a Frankfurt justice official said Monday.

Kabuye is chief of protocol to Rwandan President Paul Kagame and a leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front. She was detained on Sunday when she arrived at the German city's airport.

At a first hearing, she agreed to a fast-track extradition, German public prosecutor Hildegard Becker-Toussaint said in Frankfurt.

Kabuye was being held in a women's prison in Frankfurt.

Berlin - A senior Rwandan official, Rose Kabuye, was in German custody in Frankfurt Monday after she was detained on arrival at Frankfurt international airport under an arrest warrant issued in France.

A spokeswoman for state prosecutors in Frankfurt handling the case said she had denied the two accusations of murder and membership in a terrorist association.

She has been wanted for questioning since November 2006 in connection with the April 6, 1994 killing of Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana.

Kabuye, 47, is chief of protocol to Rwandan President Paul Kagame and a leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front.

Rwanda broke off diplomatic relations with France after the warrant was issued by magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere.

New York - The flare-up in fighting along the border areas between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo may provoke a wider conflict in the region, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Friday.

The continued fighting between Congo's armed forces and Rwanda's local group known as CNDP (the National Congress for Popular Defence) under Laurent Nkunda is inflicting added suffering on the civilians in Congo, he said.

Nairobi/Kigali - Rwanda's ruling party the Rwanda Patriotic Front (FPR) has won a majority in parliamentary elections, preliminary results have revealed.

The FPR won 42 out of 53 seats up for grabs in Monday's direct vote, the electoral commission said.

The Social Democratic Party won seven seats and the Liberal Party four.

Overseas votes have still to be counted before the result can be finalized.

The commission said final results are not expected until September 25.

Some 24 female members of parliament were voted in by provincial and city councils on Tuesday, although results are not yet available. Youth and disabled representatives are due to be elected Wednesday and Thursday.

Nairobi/Kigali - Rwandans were set to vote Monday in the second parliamentary elections since the genocide that tore the country apart in 1994.

A coalition led by Paul Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front (FPR) is expected to romp to victory once more in a complicated election that will be monitored by a team of European Union election observers.

Rwanda has taken great strides since the 1994 massacre, when the Hutu militia and military massacred 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the space of a few months.