Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Dramane Ouattara and his wife Danielle Folloroux-Ouattara were accorded a glitzy state visit providing photos for Ola Maroc and other glossies in the company of popular and photogenic royal wife Lalla Selma as dozens of bilateral co-operation agreements were signed...

President Alassane Dramane Ouattara won the 2010 election as the candidate for the alliance between his own Rassemblement des républicains (RDR) and the former single party the Parti démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire still led by the octogenarian Henri Konan Bédié (AC Vol 55 No 2 Long shadow of 2011)...

United Nations' investigators have warned the UN Security Council that Ivorian and Liberian fighters opposed to Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Dramane Ouattara are likely to multiply in the run-up to his country's elections next October...

President Alassane Ouattara is being urged to act against those from his own side who committed atrocities in the post-poll violence around the turn of the year 2010 to 2011...

They were accommodated in a guest house normally reserved for heads of state in Yamoussoukro and the next day Compaoré had a long conversation with his old friend and ally President Alassane Dramane Ouattara...

President Alassane Dramane Ouattara welcomed his French counterpart at the airport on 17 July as Hollande began the first leg of a tour which also took him to Niger and Chad...

Relations with Côte d'Ivoire where President Alassane Dramane Ouattara is democratically elected and a key interlocutor are more broad-based but still limited by unresolved issues in post-crisis reconciliation...

The run-up to the summit was marked by debate over which presidents were not coming such as South Africa's Jacob Zuma Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe (enraged that his wife Grace Mugabe was denied an invitation) and invalids such as Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Côte d'Ivoire's Alassane Dramane Ouattara...

President Alassane Dramane Ouattara's government finally took the decision to hand him over on 20 March and the first ICC hearing took place a week later on 27 March...

Just before his term as Ecowas President ended on 29 March Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara an old friend and ally of Compaoré's met the three MPP leaders and assured them he was working for a peaceful outcome...