Lawyers in Chad have announced that they will cease all activity from Tuesday for the duration of a mass trial of 401 people arrested during and after a demonstration against power that was bloodily repressed on October 20.
That day, about fifty people, young demonstrators shot dead for the vast majority, had died in N'Djamena and elsewhere when the police opened fire on the slightest attempt to gather.
A long-awaited law in Madagascar: that on the protection of whistleblowers.
It will be presented on Friday before the legal committee of the National Assembly, and there is urgency according to human rights defenders, because in recent years, more and more whistleblowers have been harassed, even imprisoned.
Latest to date: Transparency International, a Malagasy anti-corruption association.
Its 2 leaders risk prison for defamation.
The details of Gaëlle Borgia.
Music and dance to make women and children aware of their rights: this is one of the missions that Le Star Féminine Band has set itself.
A group of young Beninese girls.
Our correspondents in Benin Emmanuelle Sodji and Raphael N'talé met them.
Editor: Célia Caracena
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