Vol 58 No 11 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Cash and cache 26th May 2017 A third soldiers' mutiny this year ended on 15 May with the government promising 8,400 men would get the remainder of an €18,000 ($20,000) bonus. The bonus had...
Vol 58 No 3 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Warning shots from the army 3rd February 2017 The new political establishment is consolidating but the soldiers' mutiny points to risks from unfinished business The new Prime Minister, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, will need to deal quickly and decisively with the raft of problems that have exploded in the first weeks of the...
Vol 57 No 18 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Ouattara shores up legacy 9th September 2016 The President seeks to entrench his party after his departure and improve the country's stability Keeping the gunmen at bay is one reason that President Alassane Dramane Ouattara has launched a constitutional review. The other is to secure the future of his governing...
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...
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...
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 many in Ouagadougou....
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 2020. He...
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...
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,...