Vol 6 (AAC) No 10 | CÔTE D'IVOIRECHINA Billions for ADO 5th August 2013 Beijing state banks to lend billions to Ouattara In July, Development and Planning Minister Albert Mabri Toikeusse revealed that negotiations are under way between the Abidjan government and China’s state-run policy banks t...
Vol 53 No 25 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Soro clouds economic revival 14th December 2012 Ouattara’s new cabinet of bankers and economists underlines his determination to raise living standards but what about human rights? President Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s cabinet reshuffle on 22 November emphasised old loyalties and economic competence, firmly pushing neo-liberal economic buttons. Out from the p...
Vol 53 No 21 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Ouattara under threat again 19th October 2012 Ex-President Gbagbo’s supporters in Accra are planning guerrilla attacks over the border and may even have reached out to Mali’s jihadist rebels On 12 October, the United Nations Security Council discussed a worrying report by a UN Group of Experts that says that supporters of former President Laurent Gbagbo are bent on des...
Vol 53 No 21 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Gbagbo’s Ghana connection 19th October 2012 Former President Laurent Gbagbo’s loyalists fled to Ghana in droves when he was finally deposed in April 2011. They did so hoping for political support from Jerry Rawlings, the for...
Vol 53 No 16 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Ivorian justice questioned 3rd August 2012 Crimes committed before the civil war of 2011 should be treated differently from those committed by both sides during the conflict, Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Dramane Ouatt...
Vol 53 No 13 | CÔTE D'IVOIRELIBERIA Warlords at work 22nd June 2012 Coup plots in Côte d’Ivoire are linked to the murder of United Nations peacekeepers in the west of the country, officials in Abidjan say.
Vol 53 No 9 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE A question of security 27th April 2012 After a year of Alassane Ouattara holding power, neither government nor peacekeepers have made the country safe Those leading Côte d’Ivoire’s return to normality repeat time and again that security is improving. The government of President Alassane Dramane Ouattara, hoping to tempt foreign i...
Vol 53 No 3 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Oil is the new cocoa 3rd February 2012 Ouattara puts mining and oil at the top of a campaign to diversify the economy but not without stumbles President Alassane Dramane Ouattara is trying to move the economy away from an over-reliance on agriculture, which accounts for 40% of gross domestic product, and into mining and o...
Vol 53 No 3 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Who’s who in mines 3rd February 2012 Mines, Petroleum and Energy Minister Adama Toungara has the President’s ear, so he is likely to keep his position in the cabinet reshuffle many believe to be imminent.
Vol 53 No 1 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Smart money, prickly politics 6th January 2012 Tension will persist over attempts to integrate government armed forces and guerrillas, and to demobilise large numbers of soldiers Ex-President Laurent Gbagbo’s trial at the Hague may raise ethnic and political tension but if President Alassane Dramane Ouattara can keep the lid on this, the promising economic ...
