Côte d'Ivoire

Population: 21.1 million
GDP: $22900 million
Debt: $40.6% of GDP
Overview:

Much-delayed national elections may be held at last in 2010 – if voting rights for two million people are agreed. President Laurent Gbagbo is likely to defeat the alliance of Henri Konan Bédié and Alassane Ouattara, if the elections actually take place.

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  • Vol 43 No 25
  • 20/12/2002

A new front opens

France is determined to enforce the peace but may find the latest rebels hard to handle

  • Vol 43 No 22
  • 08/11/2002

Fighting for peace

Peace talks are faltering, and West African states are reluctant to join a peacekeeping force, but no one has any better ideas

  • Vol 43 No 20
  • 11/10/2002

Whose army?

The rebels are winning more territory and the government is losing more friends

  • Vol 43 No 19
  • 27/09/2002

The nightmare scenario

An army rebellion may send the once-prosperous country down the same road as its unstable neighbours

  • Vol 43 No 14
  • 12/07/2002

A la carte

Opposition leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara was at last granted a nationality certificate on 28 June (AC Vol 43 No 10) but was still unable to vote in district council elections on 7 July. The government insisted only those with a new green identity card ...

  • Vol 43 No 10
  • 17/05/2002

Interregnum

Politicians are quieter, the banks are friendlier, the security men are restless

  • Vol 43 No 3
  • 08/02/2002

The barricades again

Striking policemen upset the cash-strapped government and fuel other pay demands

  • Vol 42 No 20
  • 12/10/2001

Accident-prone

P>Almost everything that could go wrong for President Laurent Gbagbo's national reconciliation conference in Abidjan is doing so (AC Vol 42 No 18). None of the three main opposition figures - ex President Henri Konan Bédié, General Robert Gu...

  • Vol 42 No 18
  • 14/09/2001

In denial

The politics and economics aren't as bad as they look, says President Gbagbo

  • Vol 42 No 14
  • 13/07/2001

Conditionally yours

Friendlier to President Laurent Gbagbo than most donors, Paris has persuaded the European Union to offer vital budget support to Abidjan. This may tide Côte d'Ivoire over to qualify for a full International Monetary Fund recovery programme late this...

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