Rwandan general shot

An exiled Rwandan general was shot and wounded in South Africa in what his wife called a Rwandan-backed assassination attempt, a charge the Kigali Government dismissed as "preposterous".

Lieutenant-General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa was in the intensive care unit of a Johannesburg hospital after being shot in the stomach, Rosette Kayumba said.

Once a close confidant of President Paul Kagame, Nyamwasa fled to South Africa this year after falling out with the President, later accusing him of using an anti-corruption campaign to frame opponents.

Nyamwasa's wife said the whole family and a driver had returned home from shopping when an armed man approached their car and shot her husband. The general is expected to survive.