Vol 66 No 21 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Repression shrouds Alassane Ouattara’s election procession 22nd October 2025 The president’s strong economic record has been tarnished by corruption claims and a determination to quash dissent from any quarter President Alassane Ouattara looks set to cruise to a fourth term at polls on 25 October with challengers weak or banned and his ruling party flush with cash...
Vol 66 No 19 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE MAGA politics comes to Abidjan 26th September 2025 Veteran Trump-supporting lobbyists have found themselves pitted against one another in Abidjan, in an unlikely subplot to Côte d’Ivoire’s presidential election campaign. Parti Démocratique de Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI)...
DISPATCHES Vol 66 No 18 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Thiam faces election judgement day 8th September 2025 Should the candidate’s ban be upheld, President Ouattara may face no credible challenger in October vote, raising concerns of violence. Tidjane Thiam faces a judgement by the Constitutional Court this week on his application to be reinstated as a candidate for the presidential elections on 25 October. READ FOR FREE
DISPATCHES Vol 66 No 16 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Ruling RHDP backs Ouattara for a fourth term 4th August 2025 Party’s survival strategy risks triggering electoral turmoil as key opposition figures are banned The ruling Rassemblement des houphouëtistes pour la démocratie et la paix (RHDP) is pushing for President Alassane Ouattara in elections on 25 October – without him on the... READ FOR FREE
Vol 66 No 15 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Unity on stage – but what happens after Ouattara? 16th July 2025 Behind the spectacle and strength of the ruling party is its dependence on one man and an opposition in retreat Leadership succession and regional stability were set to dominate the informal talks between Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Dramane Ouattara and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris on...
Vol 66 No 9 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Contest heats up as court blocks Thiam 2nd May 2025 The opposition prepares mass protests after the PDCI’s presidential candidate is taken off the voters’ roll The main opposition Parti démocratique de Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI) is in crisis after an Ivorian court removed its presidential candidate Tidjane Thiam from the electoral register. The court...
Vol 66 No 6 | CÔTE D'IVOIREWHO'S WHO NEWSMAKER: Time for Thiam? 21st March 2025 Tidjane Thiam, a minister under former President Henri Konan Bédié, left Côte d’Ivoire for a lucrative business career after Bédié’s ouster in a 1999 military coup. During that...
Vol 66 No 3 | BENINCÔTE D'IVOIRESENEGALTOGOWEST AFRICAAFRICA IN 2025 Economic hits before and after votes 7th February 2025 After the youth revolution in Dakar last year, an octogenarian may be running in the Ivorian elections With voting nine months away, the campaigning and political tractations ahead of Côte d’Ivoire’s presidential elections are under way. The outcome will reverberate across the region. President Alassane...
Vol 65 No 22 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Divided they stand 31st October 2024 The Parti démocratique de Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI), which ruled the country unopposed between independence in 1960 and the country’s first coup in 1999, wants back in. But the...
Vol 65 No 11 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Ouattara risks his legacy if he runs again 23rd May 2024 Friends of the 82-year-old President are advising him to take a back seat in the 2025 elections Ivorian public calendars are dominated by a fortnight of official homage to former President Henri Konan Bédié, who died last August but will only be interred on 1...