• Olivier Dubois was released and arrived on 20 March at Niamey airport in Niger before returning to France on 21 March. The journalist was held hostage by jihadists in Mali for nearly two years (711 days in detention). "I was not mistreated, humiliated, beaten, or anything," he told AFP shortly after arriving at Villacoublay air base near Paris. "There have been difficult moments but not physical as some have experienced."

  • Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko denounced a new assassination attempt against him on 20 March. Hospitalized five days after breathing tear gas sent by the police during his forcible transfer to the Dakar court, the most prominent opponent of Macky Sall accuses the latter of trying to poison him. On the same day, the Senegalese president kept open the question of his candidacy for a third term in 2024. In an interview with L'Express, he argued that only political, not constitutional, factors would prevent him from running, regardless of what his opponents say.

  • The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), a party of the Tigray rebel authorities, was removed from the list of terrorist entities by the Ethiopian Parliament on 22 March. The TPLF had been classified as terrorist since May 6, 2021, several months after the start of a conflict with the federal government – which ended a peace agreement signed last November. The UN commission of inquiry into allegations of repeated human rights violations in Tigray recently said it had "reasonable grounds to believe that all parties to the conflict (Ethiopian and Eritrean and rebel forces) have committed war crimes and human rights violations."

President Kaïs Saïed revives border controversy with Libya

Political calculation? Populist rodomontade? Tunisians and Libyans continue to question the latest controversy provoked last week by President Kaïs Saïed's remarks on the profits of the Libyan Bouri oil field and a border dispute settled in the 1980s by the International Court of Justice, at the request of the two neighbors.

President Kaïs Saïed revives a border controversy with Libya. © FMM Graphic Studio

DR Congo: The plight of women in a camp for displaced people in North Kivu

In eastern Congo, nearly 800,000 people have been displaced in North Kivu province. In question, the conflict linked to the M23, supported according to the UN by neighboring Rwanda. Around Goma, camps for displaced people are multiplying and living conditions are difficult – especially for women, more and more of whom are breaking the silence and testifying about the rapes they suffer while doing domestic chores.

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Burkina Faso: in Ouagadougou, an ecological golf course stands the test of time

In Ouagadougou there is a unique golf course. Here, no carefully watered lawns, but soil and pebbles: the "green" is replaced by a "brown". "Burkina Faso is a country where we need water. It's a very expensive commodity, so we can't afford to drill here," said Salif Samaké, president of the Ouagadougou Golf Club.

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Tshé Tshe, member of Fulu Miziki Kolektiv: "We don't want Africa to be the world's garbage can"

The Fulu Miziki Kolektiv make their instruments and stage outfits from materials and garbage collected from the streets of Kinshasa, DR Congo. No electronics, but a unique groove. Their name means "music of the garbage", in Lingala. Tshé Tshé, a member of this extraordinary musical group, talks about his pan-African message on the ecological situation of the continent.

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Tshé Tshé, guest of Afrique Hebdo © France 24

Cameroon: the rush for drinking water in Douala

"Drinking water in the city of Douala is like a treasure," says Cédric Meka, who came to fill canisters with water drawn directly from the ground by a private borehole at the Guinness brewery in Bassa, the economic capital of Cameroon. But the demand for water is greater than the supply, and with private drilling multiplying, health risks follow this trend.

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Cameroon: the rush for drinking water in Douala © AFP

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