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 scenes intense manoeuvrings in...
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 March in...
Vol 55 No 4 | CÔTE D'IVOIRELIBERIA The price of peace 13th February 2014 Ouattara’s government has been paying Liberian mercenaries to keep a truce, while others are on trial in Monrovia. It is proving a major political headache in Liberia Côte d’Ivoire’s Great West region has been the site of deadly violence since civil conflict followed President Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s election victory over Laurent Gbagbo in November 2010....
Vol 55 No 2 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Long shadow of 2011 24th January 2014 The parties prepare for next year’s elections amid strong economic growth but a disquieting inability to move on from the past Côte d’Ivoire will enjoy robust economic growth in 2014, although against a background of political conflict rooted in the lingering divisions of the post-election crisis of 2010-11. Two...
Vol 54 No 16 | CÔTE D'IVOIREGHANA Row over exiles 29th July 2013 Claims that Ivorian secret agents are targeting pro-Laurent Gbagbo exiles in Ghana raise tensions again between Accra and Abidjan President Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s government is sending undercover agents to Ghana to abduct or assassinate supporters of former President Laurent Ggabo there, according to senior security sources in...
Vol 54 No 12 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Justice may have to wait 7th June 2013 The government claims it treats both sides’ atrocities in the recent fighting even-handedly – it may prefer to let the reconciliation process slide Militia leader Amadé Ouérémi has handed himself in for trial for the worst massacre of the 2010-11 post-election crisis, the slaughter of 3,000 people at Duékoué in March...
Vol 54 No 10 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Com-Zone, come all 10th May 2013 The Forces Nouvelles plundered the area they controlled when they were confined to the north of the country, says the latest report by the United Nations Panel of...
Vol 54 No 8 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Boycotts and masks 12th April 2013 Many independent candidates are standing in the local elections but that doesn’t lessen the main political divide At least half of the candidates which the Commission électorale indépendante (CEI) has accepted for the regional and municipal elections on 21 April are running as independents. On...
Vol 54 No 8 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Independents in name 12th April 2013 In Abidjan’s large suburb of Yopougon, seven of nine candidates are standing as independents, with one candidate from the Parti démocratique de Côte d’Ivoire-Rassemblement démocratique africain and the...
Vol 54 No 2 | CÔTE D'IVOIREGHANA Blé Goudé arrested 18th January 2013 The arrest in Tema port of Ivorian militia leader Charles Blé Goudé on 17 January will do much to improve relations between Ghana’s President John Mahama and Côte...