Also on the front page, in Benin at least one person was shot dead and three wounded Thursday in Savè, during an intervention by the army to disperse demonstrators protesting against the absence of the opposition in the presidential election Sunday.
Soldiers intervened in the morning in Savè to clear the roadblocks set up since Monday by protesters on the main road.
You will hear the opposition and the government handing over responsibility to each other, at the microphone of Célia Caracena and Sérine Bey.
In addition, President Patrice Talon, elected in 2016, puts his mandate back into play and highlights his positive economic record, despite the double shock of the crisis linked to Covid-19 and the closure of borders by Nigeria.
The country has a positive growth rate of just over 6%, the second best in sub-Saharan Africa.
Report by Emmanuelle Sodji and Raphaël N'talé in this newspaper.
Chad is also preparing to go to the polls.
The outgoing president, Idriss Déby in power for 30 years is seeking a sixth term on April 11.
The tenors of the opposition boycott the ballot.
Explanations in this edition from our correspondent Khadidja Douga.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the National Assembly adopted a bill for the protection and promotion of so-called indigenous populations.
Pygmies should now benefit from positive discrimination, they who are still often marginalized, economically, socially and politically.
DR Congo is the second African country to adopt a law in this direction, after Congo-Brazzaville 10 years ago.
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