Côte d'Ivoire

• Vol 41 No 13
• 23/06/2000

The military-metropolitan team

In Paris, General Robert Gueï is supported by a troop of retired generals who have gone into business. Most prominent is Gen. Jeannou Lacaze, Chief of Staff of the French army in the 1980s; he was security advisor to the Zaïrean President Mobutu...

• Vol 41 No 9
• 28/04/2000

Cheque in the post

Abidjan's cash crisis has brought it to the verge of default on its Brady bond commercial debt. President-General Robert Gueï's key ministers - government coordinator Seydou Diarra and Economy Minister Ngolo Coulibaly - insist the payment has been tr...

• Vol 41 No 8
• 14/04/2000

Deferred

General Gueï is looking more like a presidential candidate

• Vol 41 No 2
• 21/01/2000

Mon général

Like De Gaulle, Gueï wants to be a general until he dies and perhaps president too

• Vol 41 No 1
• 07/01/2000

Putsch de Noël

General Robert Gueï is still far from consolidating his position as head of state following the 24 December Christmas coup that brought him to power. Too many civilians and soldiers think the coup has been hijacked for the benefit of Alassane Dra...

• Vol 40 No 23
• 19/12/1999

Bédié's flashpoint

Crisis has come in the struggle by President Henri Konan Bédié to exclude from next year's presidential election the recently retired Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Alassane Dramane Ouattara. Bédi&eac...

• Vol 40 No 20
• 08/10/1999

No holds barred

The bitter government campaign for the presidency scares investors and stirs up hate

• Vol 40 No 17
• 27/08/1999

ADO ado

The normally placid holiday season is the scene of frantic government activity. The reasons are ADO and the IMF. The scandal over the embezzlement of 18 billion CFA francs of European Union aid money (AC Vol 40 No 14) has helped reduce the government's...

• Vol 40 No 14
• 09/07/1999

EU exports

• Vol 40 No 8
• 16/04/1999

Fighting the Fund

President Henri Konan Bédié's attempts to make political capital out of his government's problems with the International Monetary Fund have badly misfired.