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...

National Assembly Speaker Adama Bictogo has called 83-year-old President Alassane Ouattara ‘our natural candidate' (AC Vol 66 No 1 Ouattara risks his legacy if he runs again)...

President Alassane Dramane Ouattara embodies the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) establishment in its confrontation with the Sahelian junta leaders...

In May he visited his Ivorian counterpart Alassane Dramane Ouattara West Africa's most senior statesman and seen as the regional authority on the currency question...