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 ...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 11 | CÔTE D'IVOIRECHINA ADO brings back the billions 3rd September 2012 China’s interests in Côte d’Ivoire are growing and, for now, the focus is on infrastructure in a country recovering from ten years of political crisis As soon as he touched down at Abidjan's Felix Houphouët-Boigny airport on his return from the 19-20 July fifth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing, President Alassane Dram...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 2 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Moussa Dosso 13th December 2011 Industry Minister, Côte d’Ivoire After nearly a decade of instability, Côte d’Ivoire is undergoing a slow process of revitalisation. Moussa Dosso, the Industry Minister and member of Guillaume Soro’s Forces Nouvel...
Vol 52 No 24 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Gbagbo to the Hague, nation to the polls 2nd December 2011 Former coalition partners divide up the parliamentary spoils The arrest of former President Laurent Gbagbo by the International Criminal Court and his rendition to the Hague on 30 November prompted surprisingly little protest, given that 46%...
Vol 52 No 24 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE ICC bags Gbagbo first 2nd December 2011 The International Criminal Court may have accelerated the arrest and rendition of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo to the Hague because of the discovery of an apparent plot to spring hi...
