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...

However if the PDCI unites behind Thiam it could pose a significant challenge to the governing Rassemblement des houphouëtistes pour la démocratie et la paix (RHDP) and its presumptive candidate Alassane Ouattara...

Senegal and Cote d'Ivoire are the most likely next targets for migration deals with the EU Commission with European Council President Charles Michel having pushed the issue during his visit to presidents Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Alassane Dramane Ouattara in April (AC Vol 65 No 11 Faye's diplomatic rounds)...

Formalities aside political life is focused on future prospects and whether current President Alassane Dramane Ouattara will run for a fourth term...