Also on the front page, the Paris Court of Appeal refused to release Félicien Kabuga, accused of being the "financier" of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, the time to examine the question of his surrender to international justice that he refuses. The lawyers of the octogenarian, arrested in France on May 16 after 25 years on the run, had invoked his age and his state of health in support of their request for release under judicial supervision.

And precisely 26 years after the genocide, trauma is still very present in Rwanda. Authorities continue to prosecute genocidaires around the world and continue to search for the bodies of victims buried in mass graves. Report in this edition. 

In Guinea, the new president of the CENI, the electoral commission, was elected this Tuesday by the emissaries of the institution. His predecessor died from coronavirus. Barely elected, the opposition already calls him "pawn" of Alpha Condé. The CENI must organize the presidential election next October. You will hear the reactions in Conakry.

Finally, the Nollywood studios in Nigeria are back in service. Filming was able to resume after two months of interruption due to the coronavirus epidemic, with new ways of working.

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