After the Constitutional Court confirmed President Alassane Ouattara's win with 89...

From exile in Paris on 31 October he told the faithful that the times of ‘indiscipline' and ‘betrayal' are over – referring to ex-PDCI heavyweight Jean-Louis Billon who ran as an independent and who was expelled by Thiam (AC Vol 66 No 21 Repression shrouds Alassane Ouattara's election procession)...

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 and armed with suppressive tools...

He is now seeking to apply international pressure on President Alassane Ouattara after the Constitutional Court on 9 September upheld the ruling that prevents both him and former president Laurent Gbagbo from standing in the 25 October election (Dispatches 8/9/25 Thiam faces election judgement day)...

The announcement follows Côte d'Ivoire's 83-year-old President Alassane Ouattara announcing his bid for a fourth successive term and brings relief to officials in the Economic Community of West African States seeking to restore faith in constitutional rule amid the populist pull of Sahel juntas (AC Vol 65 No 13 Patrice Talon tests strength of General Tiani's junta & Dispatches 8/9/25 Thiam faces election judgement day)...

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 16 July...

The rally on the following day staged in the new Ebimpé Stadium – officially renamed after President Alassane Ouattara who often casts himself in Houphouët's image...

MAKING THE OUATTARAS GREAT AGAIN A sign that President Alassane Dramane Ouattara is planning to run for a fourth term in the October elections is his hiring of veteran Republican lobbyist Joseph Szlavik whose Washington DC-based Scribe Strategies also works for Congo-Kinshasa and South Sudan...

Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana are said to be backing Mauritania's Sidi Ould Tah after his campaign arranged meetings with Alassane Dramane Ouattara and John Dramani Mahama respectively...

Billon succeeded in business – between 2001 and 2012 he headed and expanded the country's premier agribusiness conglomerate Sifca – and was a trade minister in one of President Alassane Ouattara's cabinets before he switched to the PDCI...

As the ruling RHDP prepares the ground for President Alassane Ouattara's fourth term of office questions about what country he will leave behind are looming...

Before starting his Sahelian tour Mahama went to see Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Ouattara who backed the trip...