In Senegal the national dialogue concluded with a proposed date for the presidential election. After 18 months of estrangement, France and Morocco wish to open a new chapter.

French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné went to Rabat to meet his counterpart Nasser Bourita. Finally last Saturday, the Berlinale crowned the Franco-Senegalese director Mati Diop with the Golden Bear for her documentary on the restitution by the former colonial powers of works of art stolen in Africa.