Also on the front page, the Bamako Assize Court ordered on Monday the end, without a verdict, of the assassination trial against the Malian general Amadou Sanogo, leader of a putsch in 2012 and briefly head of state, and about fifteen of co-accused.

The court invoked a controversial law passed in 2019 in the name of reconciliation and offering the possibility of amnesty or pardon for the perpetrators of certain crimes committed during the 2012 crisis. It also invoked a compensation agreement concluded between the 'State and civil parties.

The jihadists of the Boko Haram Group are still rife in Nigeria, and the consequences of this violence are enormous.

Our correspondents in Cameroon wanted to demonstrate it to you with this report in the far north of the country, where one of the most populous refugee camps in the world is located.

There are said to be 67,000 Nigerians.

In recent months, they are encouraged and helped to return home.

Report by Marcel Amoko and Michel Mvondo.

We will discuss the visit of the Malian President to Algeria with our correspondent Moncef Ait Kaci.

Bah Ndaw went to Algiers for the first time for a working visit.

Algiers who said they were ready to help Bamako in restoring its stability and preparing for the elections. 

Finally the remains of Djibril Tamsir Niane, victim of Covid-19, arrived in Conakry on Monday.

The Guinean historian specializing in medieval African history died at the age of 89 in Dakar where he had been evacuated for treatment.

Author in 1960 of "Soundjata Keïta or the Mandingo epic", he was considered a monument of African literature. 

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