Vol 57 No 9 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Parties to many disputes 29th April 2016 Although the presidential elections are a good four years off, fighting inside the governing coalition is already off to a lively start Now that it has finally sunk in that this is President Alassane Dramane Ouattara's final term of office, the two main parties that formed the governing Rassemblement des houphouëti...
Vol 57 No 6 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Terror on the beach 18th March 2016 The nation's first jihadist terrorist attack claimed 22 lives on 13 March as politicians on all sides tried to use it to score points against each other. The initial target for Al ...
Vol 57 No 5 | BURKINA FASOCÔTE D'IVOIRE Blaise the Ivorian 4th March 2016 Compaoré cannot now be extradited and Burkinabè are now questioning the zeal of their new leaders Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara's decision to protect Burkina Faso's deposed President Blaise Compaoré /strong> by granting him citizenship is an act of aggression, say...
Vol 57 No 1 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE ADO looks ahead 8th January 2016 Reconciling the nation, purging the army and restoring a stable political culture are the President's big challenges in his second term President Alassane Dramane Ouattara's second term in office will be about bestowing a legacy of lasting political stability and economic reconstruction when he leaves office in 202...
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...
