Vol 56 No 25 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Soro has phone trouble 18th December 2015 The former rebel leader is a problem for the President, who may now have the means to dispense with his disreputable ally The Speaker of the Ivorian Parliament, former rebel leader and ex-Prime Minister Guillaume Soro, made a lot of telephone calls to the men responsible for September's attempted coup...
Vol 56 No 22 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Ouattara walks it 6th November 2015 A decisive victory brings a chance to ease out the corrupt militiamen in government and relaunch the economy The Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, Youssouf Bakayoko, had an easier time of it last month than five years ago. That's when one of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo's y...
Vol 56 No 12 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE The election gets messier 12th June 2015 Two new alliances of opposition politicians are creating problems for President Ouattara's campaign Once President Alassane Dramane Ouattara had announced last year that he would seek a second term, he was the clear favourite to win the election due this October, given the streng...
Vol 56 No 12 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE CNC: who is who? 12th June 2015 'Crabs in a bucket' is one of the descriptions used to describe the new alliance, the Coalition nationale pour le changement. Signatures under its founding charter include those of...
Vol 56 No 6 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE 'Gbagbo or nothing' 20th March 2015 The once ruling Front populaire ivoirien has confirmed it prefers the past to future by replacing Pascal Affi N'Guessan as FPI leader with Aboudrahmane Sangaré, an unreconst...
Vol 56 No 2 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Ouattara looks at second term 23rd January 2015 The President faces greater danger from his allies than from a demoralised opposition that is stubbornly loyal to his predecessor The main opposition Front populaire ivoirien appears unable to accept that it must replace its leader, ex-President Laurent Gbagbo, to contest the elections in October. The Interna...
Vol 55 No 25 | CÔTE D'IVOIRELIBERIA Uneasy peace on the border 19th December 2014 The volatile frontier between the two countries is far from calm. A defecting guerrilla warns of possible trouble ahead United Nations' investigators have warned the UN Security Council that Ivorian and Liberian fighters opposed to Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Dramane Ouattara are likely...
Vol 55 No 25 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Blé Goudé's bad day 19th December 2014 On 11 December, the International Criminal Court confirmed charges of murder, rape and other inhumane acts against Charles Blé Goudé, 42, a former Ivorian militia lea...
Vol 55 No 15 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Polls beckon as Hollande flies in 22nd July 2014 Ouattara hopes the French President’s visit will help his coalition prepare for next year's elections. The main opposition is floundering President François Hollande’s visit last week to Côte d’Ivoire was full of fanfares for regional security and doing business with France but behind the sce...
Vol 55 No 7 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Who will follow Blé Goudé to the Hague? 28th March 2014 After ex-President Gbagbo's cheerleader joins him for trial at the ICC, the court's investigations focus on President Ouattara's allies Feted by his supporters in Abidjan's tough suburb of Yopougon as ‘the General of the Street’, the former Youth Minister Charles Blé Goudé landed on 22 Mar...
