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Democracy ! Everyone talks about it, even claims to act in its name and for its principles, but everyone interprets it as they wish, draws it, sketches it according to their own aspirations and under the yoke of their own interests... Ah, democracy! As everyone knows how to pervert it, interpret it, recalibrate it, apply it as they wish, then evoke it to renounce their duties... / An analysis by an African journalist, Serge Mathias TOMONDJI, who will shake up many certainties on the subject ! / again on 06-05-2024

While the overseas territories have human wealth, cultural diversity, creativity and considerable potential, we continue to underestimate the major interest in the influence of France and Europe, of these territories present in the four corners of the world and on three oceans. “I will not say France’s “disinterest”, but rather a certain “subjection” or “neocolonialism” whose dimensions it itself is expanding, placing the cursor according to its interests, to the detriment of those of indigenous peoples.” / Interview with Jean-Claude Mairal / current. on 07-22-2024..

Walles KOTRA, originally from the island of Tiga in New Caledonia, was executive director in charge of Overseas within the France Télévisions group./ Interview: “The French State must learn to reformulate itself. The process may appear complicated for a State that was built on Jacobinism but it is an important issue for the future. Academics, diplomats, economic and political leaders should take this subject head on. Unfortunately, I don’t have the impression that we are moving in this direction.” / Interview with JC MAIRAL / actil. 20.06.2024

“In Italy, unlike countries which have been able to opt for other models such as multiculturalism in the United Kingdom, or assimilationism in France, the capacity to invent and create good practices at the local level has prevailed, because Italy is a large country where strength lies above all in the territories. We should thus be able to synthesize the system and create a national framework law on immigration, reception and social cohesion” / Marwa MAHMOUD, in LAB Politiche et culture / 09-06-2024-

"To invent the France of tomorrow, to build new imaginations to oppose the deadly withdrawal, we will therefore have to remake politics: we will have to reweave links, build bridges and go into the field to better understand the world in which we live and put this observation at the heart of the public debate It will also be necessary, within political parties, to prevent the systematic capture of debates by the logic of the apparatus. There is only one radically democratic solution: discuss! Let's get together and think together about the future that we want to build collectively. Let's take stock of who we are and who we want to be, looking at the multiplicity of the world. Then we can move forward collectively. Frédéric GILLI, in AOC Média, JCM / July 16, 2024

The 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted on Friday June 7, 2024, a resolution proposed by China to establish the International Day of Dialogue Among Civilizations. The resolution declares that all advances of civilizations are “the collective heritage of humanity”. It advocates respect for the diversity of civilizations and underlines “the crucial role of dialogue in maintaining world peace, promoting common development, improving human well-being and achieving collective progress. / in International Press Agency Pressenza / 06-14-2024.

Switzerland has just hosted the “International Conference for Peace in Ukraine” with the participation of 90 countries. The final resolution was signed by everyone with the notable exception of the countries of the “Global South” belonging to the BRICS: Brazil, Indonesia, India, South Africa… and, above all, in the absence of the main ones among them, the China and Russia. Paradoxically, doesn't this initiative risk dragging us a little further into the war by pushing the Russian president to his limits? In Herodotus review of June 19 -

“It seems essential to me to think of Francophonies in the plural. On the same territory, French-speaking realities diverge: on a planetary scale, there are multiple French-speaking languages ​​which should not be standardized or reduced, but rather linked. » / Interview with Haydée Silva, head of the language and literature teaching department of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico / Interview / May 24, 2024.

'LAB Politiche e Culture' is a new magazine created in Bologna, Italy, at the start of 2024, by Professor Giuseppe GILIBERTI. It will alternate articles, interviews and videos. The international editorial committee (in Bologna, Naples, Rome, Tunis, Montreuil, Vichy, etc.) will deal with local development policies as well as the environment, communication, intercultural relations, foreign policies, from a geopolitical perspective. around the Mediterranean. An approach specific to Italy and neighboring countries. /I-Dialogos participates in this initiative. / updated February 16, 2024

No less than eleven presidential elections appear on Africa's political agenda for this year 2024. Four of them have already been held and the meeting of Rwandans, on July 15, with the ballot boxes of their country, inaugurates the cycle for the second semester already well underway. The dance of the ballot boxes therefore continues on the continent, with multiple issues and various consequences./ The article by Serge Mathias TOMONDJI, in Ouagadougou, in the Burkinabe daily LIBRE INFO of July 13, 2024.

France's last military intervention dates from 2013, under a United Nations mandate, as part of Operation Sangaris. The objective is then to pacify the Central African Republic and allow the 2015-2016 general elections to run satisfactorily. But on the very day of the swearing-in of the new President, Jean-Yves Le Drian, French Minister of Defense, announced, suddenly and without anticipation, the departure of the Sangaris mission, a decision with heavy and serious consequences as Sangaris was unanimously appreciated. / The article by former Prime Minister Martin ZIGUELE, in the "Political and Parliamentary Review"/ on 05-06-2024 -

Jürgen Habermas and Edgar Morin warn of the proliferation, in the media and on social networks, of warmongering speeches opposed to any search for compromise, even diplomatic. How can we ignore the calls for dialogue and reason from our two greatest European philosophers? The press is, however, a fundamental pillar of any true democracy. "Journalistic information is too precious a good not to be confused with propaganda", was it counter-propaganda. / Pierrick HAMON is General Delegate of I-Dialogos