In the press - Ivory Coast: with the Ouattara-Gbagbo meeting, "finally national reconciliation?"

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On the front page of the press, the still tense situation in Tunisia, where President Kaïs Saïed suspended Parliament for 30 days on Sunday and sacked the head of government.

"Tunisia is at a crossroads: has Kaïs Saïed just staged a coup or has he corrected a bad trajectory?" : while the country and jurists are divided on this issue, the Tunisian daily

chooses not to comment. The newspaper

, on the other hand, agrees: "Kaïs Saïed seeks to impose a new state of affairs. Coup or correction, you can call it what you want: the president has only taken the lead. to an inevitable social implosion ", justifies the newspaper. The

info site

publishes, him, the warning of the political scientist Mohamed Chérif Ferjani: "Certainly, the situation which has prevailed so far in Tunisia, under the responsibility of the Islamists of the movement Ennahda and their allies could not last. But it should not last. no longer be a pretext to impose on the country a state of emergency which can lead to the establishment of a dictatorship, like what happened in Egypt, where Abdelfattah al-Sissi had profited from the coup d 'Rampant state of the Muslim Brotherhood to establish a dictatorship worse than those the country had known.

As for the foreign press, the pan-Arab site in London

asserts that there is "nothing constitutional in the coup" of the president, whom he accuses of being himself a "source instability "for his country, by his way of governing, alternating" threat and softness ". In France,

comments on the scenes of jubilation which welcomed the decisions of Kaïs Saïed. scenes which have "nothing surprising", according to L'Huma: "Since the fall of the dictator Ben Ali, a specter haunts Tunisia: that of the providential man. It must be said that for ten years, the democratic promise of the revolution does not stop sinking into the swamps of corruption, political intrigue and the economic crisis and the Islamists can easily denounce a 'coup d'état', they who have contributed in a decisive way to carrying this rigid conservative in power ".

Many comments also this morning on the meeting, scheduled today, in Côte d'Ivoire, between President Alassane Ouattara, and his predecessor, Laurent Gbagbo. This first meeting since the post-electoral crisis of 2010, which left more than 3,000 dead, is on the front page of the entire Ivorian press. "The people are waiting for white smoke: why we must believe in it", headlines

, who recalls that Laurent Gbagbo, acquitted last March by the International Criminal Court of crimes against humanity of which he was accused, also met this month another former rival, Henri Konan Bédié. Meetings which "contribute to the relaxation of the political climate and to the consolidation of the social fabric", according to the newspaper. "Face to face Ouattara-Gbagbo, everyone goes with their hidden agenda," warns

, a daily favorable to Alassane Ouattara.

wants to believe, in spite of everything, that this meeting seals national reconciliation - a prospect "not impossible, as long as all the actors show good faith, avoiding rehashing the painful past that the Ivory Coast has known. ",according to the Burkinabé daily.

In India, the crackdown on independent media is intensifying. Latest targets: the most popular daily in the country, and a television channel. The French daily

reports a raid by the tax administration against a TV channel based in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, whose editorial staff had investigated the management of the pandemic by the local government. Investigative work similar to that carried out by the newspaper

, the object of a similar raid last week. The group that manages this daily, and whose journalists have revealed the extent of the health crisis at the risk of their lives, is accused of tax evasion. But for the opposition and press freedom advocates in India, the aim of these lawsuits would be quite different, to send this message that could not be clearer: "Anyone who speaks out against the BJP government will not be spared."

We do not leave each other on this.

relays an information from the daily

, which announces that a German entrepreneur is planning to turn the former French aircraft carrier Foch into a luxury hotel. His idea would be to transform "a military object into a civilian object", but before that, the businessman will have to find the necessary investments and win the round against former crew members of the aircraft carrier, who wish, them, to turn it into a museum. The common advantage of these two projects being to avoid the disappearance forever of the ship and the ecological consequences linked to its possible dismantling.

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