Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

French influence is seen negatively by most governments in the region apart from Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria where Presidents Alassane Ouattara and Tinubu share a close rapport with Macron in Paris...

CÔTE D'IVOIRE: On the agenda for Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara after a 29 October presidential lecture at the World Trade Organization whose director-general former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is an old ally was a trip to Paris including dinner with President Emmanuel Macron with a series of knotty issues: the fragile détente between the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) and the Alliance des États du Sahel (AES) efforts to reform the CFA franc cost controls for French firms building the Abidjan metro and a compromise on the leadership of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) before its 15-16 November summit...

These were the second and third stops on a regional tour that began with a meeting at the Lagos home of Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu and continued with visits to Togo's Faure Gnassingbé and Côte d'Ivoire's Alassane Ouattara...

Their message to the minister and to President Alassane Dramane Ouattara: ‘We are drowning...

But the election in 2025 brought politics further into cocoa policy (AC Vol 66 No 21 Repression shrouds Alassane Ouattara's election procession)...

It argued that the opposition was merely trying to exploit the economic crisis and manipulate public sentiment despite its heavy defeats in the legislative and presidential elections (AC Vol 66 No 21 Repression shrouds Alassane Ouattara's election procession & Vol 66 No 22 Opposition split after Ouattara win)...

The Wednesday press briefings that follow the weekly ministerial meetings under President Alassane Dramane Ouattara are usually routine affairs...

The more urgent the succession question becomes – President Alassane Dramane Ouattara turned 84 on 1 January – the more the ruling party will start to resemble a snake pit a political veteran told Africa Confidential in Abidjan...

The buzz began after Côte d'Ivoire's 27 December legislative elections won by the ruling Rassemblement des houphoëtistes pour la démocatie et la paix (RHDP) of president Alassane Ouattara with 197 of the 255 seats...

This year will bring a mixed bag of golden opportunities and make-or-break need for reform SAHEL IN 2026: More volatile more unpredictable more violentFor Goïta Tiani and Traoré the year offers bleak prospects of any progress in the war on jihad CÔTE D'IVOIRE IN 2026: Shrinking political kingdomsAfter winning his fourth presidential election Alassane Ouattara is under pressure to organise a succession plan GUINEA IN 2026: All eyes on SimandouOpening one of the biggest iron ore mines in the world helped General Doumbouya win the election – now people want to see the benefits SENEGAL IN 2026: The tipping pointWill President and Prime Minister agree to set aside differences and work together to meet great expectations and stop jihadists on the border...

With the presidential and legislative elections done and dusted amidst much indifference (the 28 December legislative elections attracted less than a third of eligible voters) political minds can concentrate on the two questions that will dominate political life this year and beyond: when is president Alassane Dramane Ouattara 83 going to retire and what happens when his ruling Rassemblement des houphouëtstes pour la paix et la démocratie (RHDP) disintegrates...

President Macron was like Côte d'Ivoire's Alassane Ouattara Ecowas chair Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone and Tinubu in direct touch with Talon during the day...