This Friday it will be a year since the Beninese opponent Joël Aïvo has been in prison.

He had been sentenced to ten years in prison.

The constitutional law professor, whose 2021 presidential candidacy had not been validated, was found guilty of "money laundering" and "undermining state security".

You will hear his lawyer Maître Fatiou Ousman.

The catastrophic floods in South Africa have killed 341 people and affected nearly 41,000 people, according to a report which was further increased Thursday evening.

Most of the victims were recorded in the Durban region, a major African port in Kwazulu-Natal province and the epicenter of the bad weather that began last weekend.

A state of disaster has been declared.

Editor: Célia Caracena

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