A former minister of ousted Chadian president Hissène Habré tells a war crimes tribunal of the dictator’s absolute tribal power during his eight-year reign. And, faced with an rising number of migrants in the city, Paris’s town hall is opening several new housing centres. Our team went to one of them, a former high school already occupied by hundreds of people. Finally, we look at the risks faced by African economies who have thrown their lot in with China as the Asian giant suffers a slowdown.