Also on the front page, two former Central African militia leaders, including a former senior African football official, on Tuesday dismissed all the charges against them at the opening of their trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC), which accuses them war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona, former Central African Minister of Sports, and Alfred Yekatom, nicknamed "Rambo", are on trial for alleged crimes committed in the Central African Republic during the civil war between 2013 and 2014. Our correspondent Clément Di Roma went to meet victims in Bangui.
In Guinea, a "first emergency humanitarian flight", with UN and Guinean government experts on board, as well as sanitary equipment, arrived in the early evening in Nzérékoré, in forest Guinea.
Hundreds of people demonstrated in Kherrata in Algeria, the cradle of the Hirak anti-regime movement.
The case of Walid Nekkiche, a young imprisoned activist who accuses the security services of having tortured and sexually assaulted him, continues to make headlines in the country.
Finally we will talk about the 5th edition of the Africa RFI -France 24 Challenge App.
This year it rewarded the Guinean Amara Diawara, doctor and designer of the "Afriqcare" project, a platform intended for doctors and patients.
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