Alaa Abdel Fattah, a central figure in the 2011 uprising in Egypt and in pre-trial detention, was sentenced to five years in prison by an exceptional Cairo court for "spreading false information", his sister announced on Monday.
Human rights defenders in Guinea on Saturday asked the junta to reconsider its decision to rename the airport in the capital Conakry after the father of independence Ahmed Sékou Touré, a "tyrant" who made " thousands of victims ". Ahmed Sékou Touré led Guinea from independence in 1958 until his death in 1984. Trading his first clothes as a progressive leader, he became a dictator, ruling his country with an iron fist. According to human rights organizations, his regime is responsible for the death or disappearance of 50,000 people, most of them at Camp Boiro, a military base in the Guinean capital.
And at the end of this edition we will go to Saint-Louis in Senegal.
Our correspondent in Dakar went there to try to bring us the secrets of Théboudieune, dish and national pride in Senegal, now listed in the intangible world heritage of UNESCO.
Editor-in-chief: Célia Caracena
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