Also in summary, the UN has decided to withdraw some 450 Gabonese peacekeepers from its peacekeeping force in the Central African Republic after accusations of sexual exploitation and abuse on which the Libreville government has opened an investigation.
Hundreds of Guinean human rights, women's promotion and anti-corruption activists lined up on Wednesday in the hope of exposing their expectations to the coup leader.
For now the Guineans are waiting and the junta has multiplied its hands out.
We talk about it with political analyst Kabinet Fofana, president of the Guinean association of political sciences.
In Uganda, 54 human rights organizations had to close their doors on government orders, officially for violations of administrative rules.
But for activists this is just another phase of repression by the government of President Museveni, which leaves little freedom to dissenting voices.
Finally, Egypt opens to the public the southern cemetery of Pharaoh Djoser, first king of the Third Egyptian Dynasty, after 15 years of restoration work.
Editor-in-chief: Célia Caracena
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