Nigerian youth paid tribute, a year later, to the victims of the bloody repression of the #EndSARS movement against police violence, in Lagos and Abuja before being dispersed by the police.

The Ethiopian army on Wednesday launched an airstrike against Mekele, the capital of the northern Tigray region, for the second time this week, marking a further escalation of the regional conflict that has lasted for nearly a year.

Crucial day in Sudan this Thursday, will Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok succeed in retaining power?

The discontent rises in Khartoum as in the rest of the country, thousands of protesters demand his departure.

The government has opened a crisis unit and started discussions with political actors calling for its dissolution, but more and more voices are being raised against it.

Large-scale demonstrations must be organized in the capital.

Bastien Renouil is our special correspondent in Khartoum.

We will go to Burkina Faso where FESPACO, the Pan-African Film and Television Festival in Ouagadougou, is being held.

Fatimata Wane is our special correspondent and presents the Senegalese series "Walabok!"

Editor-in-chief: Célia Caracena

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