Despite successive postponements, reluctance and minor obstacles to the agreement, the 18th Summit of La Francophonie opened on the island of Djerba as planned. However, his organization was strewn with pitfalls for the Tunisian authorities.

As a result, French has become the official language of Djerba... The 18th summit of the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF), including a ministerial meeting, will be held from November 18 to 20 for a minimum duration of 72 hours. . However, hosting the event in Tunisia was not without its challenges. The proof: Three months before this happened, rumors of relocation to Paris were still circulating in the Parisian corridors of the French-speaking institution.

It all started with "a surprise", in the words of Béji Caïd Essebsi, still President of Tunisia at the time. of the 17th summit of Yerevan, in 2018, had decided to entrust that of the following summit, initially planned in France, to the young Tunisian democracy.