Also in this edition, the resignation of the Prime Minister of Lesotho, a much awaited departure after several months of political crisis. A crisis caused by his implication in the assassination of his wife in 2017. An insight from Caroline Dumay, our correspondent.

A giant statue of Thomas Sankara, unbolted the day after its inauguration in March 2019 due to criticism of the lack of resemblance to the "father of the revolution", murdered during a coup in 1987, was reinstalled on Sunday after being changed.

To finish we come back to the case of Rokia Traoré, the Franco-Malian singer. She returned to Mali when French justice had forbidden her to leave the territory. Paris was to deliver it to Belgium as part of a procedure relating to the custody of her daughter.

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