(AROUND THE WORLD): « IVORY COAST » TO BE ON THE BRINK OF A NEW TURMOIL?

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WHEN THERE IS SMOKE, THERE IS ALSO FIRE, SOMEONE SAID IN « USA »: « IVORY COAST »(WEST AFRICA) SEEMS TO BE ON THE VERGE OF A NEW TURMOIL IN THE DAYS TO COME, AS FAR AS SOME SIGNS ARE CONCERNED! IS IT ANOTHER TRUMPET OF AN EVENTUAL POLITICAL CHANGE IN A COUNTRY WHERE CONSPICUOUS SHORTCOMINGS HAVE BEEN AN EMBARRASMENT TO THE SO CALLED INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY: RAMPANT CORRUPTION, GREED,ETHNIC CLEANSING, TRIBALISM, TRAMPLING ON THE FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS SEEM TO BE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM OF THE NEW REGIME SINCE (2011)!IN SHORT, ARE  MOST OF THE IVORIAN PEOPLE  LOOKING FORWARD TO   THE LIGHT OF AN EVENTUAL POLITICAL CHANGE, THROUGH A SOFT POLITICAL TRANSITION?THAT’S THE BASIC QUESTION RIGHT NOW IN « ABIDJAN, THE ECONOMIC CAPITAL CITY!AS ARESULT, WE OUGHT TO PLAY OUR PART AS AN  INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATIVE SOCIAL MEDIA, SO AS TO RAISE THE CONSCIOUS OF THE IVORIAN MASSES HIGH GRADUALLY, BECAUSE THERE IS A LINK BETWEEN MEDIA AND POLITICS SINCE EVER TO SOME EXTENT!

-(« FOCUS ON MEDIA AND POLITICS  IN « AFRICA »  TODAY »)!

WE MUST NOT  TAKE FOR GRANTED THE LINK BETWEEN COMMUNICATION AND POLITICS SINCE EVER:IN CONSEQUENCE, COMMUNICATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN CENTRAL TO POLITICS AND MASS COMMUNICATIONS ARE A KEY FEATURES OF MODERN POLITICS:IN CONSEQUENCE, REVOLUTIONNARIES, ACTIVISTS, COUP-MAKERS ARE’ AS AWARE OF THIS AS CIVILIAN POLITICIANS.TELEVISION CENTRES, RADIO STATIONS AND NEWSPAPER OFFICES ARE ALWAYS PRIORITY TARGETS IN AN EVENTUAL TAKE-OVER.IN THE SAME TREND, A MONOPOLY OF THE NATIONAL MEDIA DOES NOT ENABLE THE CONSPIRATORS TO CONTROL WHAT PEOPLE THINK, BUT A T LEAST IT ALLOWS THEM TO LIMIT WHAT PEOPLE KNOW. AND THAT MAKES IT HARDER FOR THE OPPOSITION TO MOBILISE AGAINST THE NEW RULERS: AS A RESULT, CONTROL OF THE MEDIA IN A NATION PUT THE COUP-MAKERS IN THE DRIVING SEAT.

-RIGHT NOW, IN THE « IVORY COAST » RIGHT NOW THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE REMAINS FRAGILE AND THE OPPOSTION SEEMS TO SEARCH FOR A WAY OUT, TO MAKE THE HEAD OF STATE  STEP DOWN OR RATHER THAN BEING INDICTED IN A NEAR FUTUTRE!NOBODY KNOWS TOMORROW RIGHT NOW IN THE « IVORY COAST », BECAUSE THE ROAD TO TRUE DEMOCRACY SEEMS TO BE FOGGY AND SO LONG AS WELL, IN A COUNTRY WHERE TRUE RECONCILIATION HAS UNFORTUNATELY FAILED…

( WAIT AND SEE)!

(YVES T BOUAZO)(CHIEF AND MANAGING EDITOR)(« IMAGE »: » DOWNTOWN-« ABIDJAN »-CAPITAL CITY OF THE « IVORY COAST »)(WEST AFRICA)