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Côte d'Ivoire
Population: 22.0 mn.
GDP: 23.0 bn.
Debt: 9.7 bn.
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The contrast between ex-president Laurent Gbagbo's ICC trial in The Hague and President Alassane Dramane Ouattara's reluctance to hold his FRCI soldiers to account for abuses will slow reconciliation. Former IMF official Ouattara will use his international connections to bring in funding. 

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  • Vol 52 No 18
  •  9th September 2011

Gbagbo: France’s part in his downfall

The French Licorne force played a decisive role in the United Nations’ storming of the presidential palace and the capture of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo. French troops took few casualties but they were involved in fierce fighting throughout Abidjan.

  • Vol 52 No 16
  •  5th August 2011

100 days of ADO

Fêted in Washington and Paris, Ouattara faces tough questions about stability and politics at home

  • Vol 52 No 11
  •  27th May 2011

Cocoa holds the key

President Ouattara needs to stop the smuggling and bring the soldiers under control

  • Vol 52 No 11
  •  27th May 2011

Peace in Côte d’Ivoire, relief for Dakar

President Abdoulaye Wade warmly welcomed Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s victory at the polls. The two are politically close, which excluded Wade as a mediator during the subsequent unrest. Whatever Wade’s other political difficulties, there...

  • Vol 52 No 10
  •  13th May 2011

Stabilisation now, reconciliation later

Ouattara is a strong Western ally but his national skills are more of an unknown quantity as he tries to reconcile his own fractious forces as well as Gbagbo’s loyalists. With Gbagbo confined in the north under UN guard and his forces demoralised or captu...

  • Vol 52 No 10
  •  13th May 2011

Coulibaly: Death of a rebel

The death of Ibrahim Coulibaly (‘IB’), a former commander with the Forces Nouvelles, points to the difficulties of establishing a new security order in Côte d’Ivoire. IB died in a firefight against his erstwhile comrades in Abidjan on 27 April. There is n...

  • Vol 52 No 8
  •  15th April 2011

A resolution in Abidjan

The military ousting of Gbagbo will have repercussions across Africa

  • Vol 52 No 6
  •  18th March 2011

Guns, votes and cocoa

Laurent Gbagbo’s military position is weakening as business friends help him to break his rival’s ban on cocoa exports

  • Vol 52 No 5
  •  4th March 2011

Peering into the abyss

Armed supporters of Ouattara, the internationally recognised winner of 2010’s election, take on forces and militia loyal to Laurent Gbagbo

  • Vol 52 No 4
  •  18th February 2011

Democracy standoff

Bitterness grows amid the political stalemate and economic pressure on Laurent Gbagbo is mounting

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