The week was dominated by two countries, both struggling to remake their governments: Tunisia and Côte d'Ivoire. In Tunisia, protestors argued the new leadership was not new enough; while in Côte d'Ivoire, the old leaders are still refusing international calls for them to step down.

Gunmen abduct two Frenchmen in Niger; youth protest against unemployment and high prices in Algeria and the crisis continues in Côte d'Ivoire. The mood in southern Sudan is festive ahead of this week's independence referendum.

The battle for control of Côte d'Ivoire, the International Criminal Court names six prime suspects for 2007's post-election violence in Kenya and Ghana joins the privileged club of oil-producing countries.

Côte d'Ivoire's presidential run-off election produced two verdicts, two winners and two governments.

This week's Spotlight on Africa looks back at political uncertainty in Côte d'Ivoire and the International Criminal Court's decision to name six Kenyans it suspects to be the masterminds of post-election violence in 2008.

This week: the start of Jean-Pierre Bemba's war crimes trial; fundraising for the trial of former Chadian president Hissène Habré; a northern rival for Nigerian presidential candidate Goodluck Jonathan; and Zimbabwe’s Vice President Morgan Tsvangirai takes President Robert Mugabe to court for breaching the country’s power-sharing deal.

Ethnic clashes in Guinea cast a pall over victory celebration after the election of the country's first democratically picked leader, Madagascar's referendum day coup and journey's end for Victor Bout, extradited to the United States to face terrorism charges.

France's highest appeals court approves a case against three African presidents over their apparently ill-gotten wealth, elections in Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire and the fining of a South African hospital which performed kidney transplants with organs extracted from poor people.

Spotlight this week looks at Côte d'Ivoire's landmark elections; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's move to cleanse her image ahead of next year's Liberian elections; the continuing saga of Kenya's truth and reconciliation commission following Bethuel Kiplagat's decision to step down; and the extradition to the Hague of FDLR leader Calixthe Mbarushimana.

This week in Spotlight on Africa, RFI's William Niba highlights Guinea's troubled process to pick its first democratically-elected president, Khartoum's campaign to block a self-determination referendum in oil-rich Abyei, preparations for Uganda's upcoming presidential elections and Kenya's latest graft scandal.