Then, in Burkina Faso, the presidential and legislative elections will be held this Sunday.
They are six million to be expected at the polling stations.
Elections in a particularly difficult security and humanitarian context.
What are the expectations of the Burkinabè?
Some answers in this report by Bangaly Touré and Kalidou Sy.
Trade is gradually resuming between Rwanda and the DRC.
After eight months of total closure due to the coronavirus, four border posts have partially reopened in a week, for traders, students and doctors on presentation of a negative Covid-19 test.
But a large number of them cannot afford to pay for it, especially since they have already lost a lot because of the health crisis.
Finally, the 2020 edition of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation's index on good governance was published on Monday.
And according to this index, progress in governance in Africa is slowing down.
The health crisis will undoubtedly accentuate this slowdown, as Nathalie Delapalme, executive director of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, explains in this journal.
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