Côte d'Ivoire

Population: 23.4 mn.
GDP: 24.3 bn.
Debt: 11.4 bn.
Overview:

Ongoing attacks in Abidjan and the unruly West will hamper reconstruction. Regional and local elections early in 2013 will test President Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s popularity. With ex-President Laurent Gbagbo at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, a sense of ‘victor’s justice’ persists, but presidential hopeful and ex-rebel leader Guillaume Soro may also face an ICC arrest warrant . 

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  • Vol 53 No 3
  •  3rd February 2012

Oil is the new cocoa

Ouattara puts mining and oil at the top of a campaign to diversify the economy but not without stumbles

  • Vol 53 No 3
  •  3rd February 2012

Who’s who in mines

Mines, Petroleum and Energy Minister Adama Toungara has the President’s ear, so he is likely to keep his position in the cabinet reshuffle many believe to be imminent.

  • Vol 53 No 1
  •  6th January 2012

Smart money, prickly politics

Tension will persist over attempts to integrate government armed forces and guerrillas, and to demobilise large numbers of soldiers

  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

Gbagbo to the Hague, nation to the polls

Former coalition partners divide up the parliamentary spoils

  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

ICC bags Gbagbo first

The International Criminal Court may have accelerated the arrest and rendition of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo to the Hague because of the discovery of an apparent plot to spring him from house arrest in the northern town of Korhogo, we hear.

  • Vol 52 No 22
  •  4th November 2011

The past is another country

More is emerging about the history of bad blood between the two countries and Luanda’s former fondness for Gbagbo

  • Vol 52 No 22
  •  4th November 2011

They don’t seek him here...

More information is emerging about ex-President Laurent Gbagbo’s former Youth Minister, Charles Blé Goudé, leader of the Jeunes Patriotes. He has been living in luxurious exile in Ghana, in the upmarket Accra district of East Legon with a villa and severa...

  • Vol 52 No 20
  •  7th October 2011

New leaf

When Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf visited Luanda in September, Angola asked her to help mend fences with Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO), say Abidjan sources. Angolan support for Laurent Gbagbo had angered ADO. Evidence has e...

  • Vol 52 No 19
  •  23rd September 2011

Economy recovers, security wobbles

A post-war boom has started but there is big concern about the forthcoming parliamentary elections

  • Vol 52 No 18
  •  9th September 2011

Bringing peace to the military

Gbagbo’s party has all but collapsed but an unruly coalition of poorly disciplined soldiers is a serious challenge

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