At least two people were killed and several injured on Tuesday evening in a series of near-simultaneous attacks that targeted popular sites in Bujumbura.

In Guinea Imam Nanfo Ismael Diaby was sentenced to 12 months in prison, including six months closed.

The authorities accuse him of having led the prayer in Malinke and not in Arabic.

French President Emmanuel Macron is expected in Rwanda on Thursday with the ambition to finally normalize bilateral relations poisoned for more than a quarter of a century by the role played by France in the 1994 Tutsi genocide. Report in Kigali in this newspaper . 

Finally, Vincent Robin-Gazsity, passionate about Asia in general and China in particular, author of a thesis on relations between China and Gabon, tells us about his book "a Frenchman in Chinafrique".

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