Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

On the West African side Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara as new Chairman of Ecowas is the titular leader of the intervention but he faces a new insurgency at home from forces loyal to ousted President Laurent Gbagbo...

On 12 October the United Nations Security Council discussed a worrying report by a UN Group of Experts that says that supporters of former President Laurent Gbagbo are bent on destabilising the government of President Alassane Dramane Ouattara...

Ironically some Gbagbo loyalists appear to depend on support from within the government of President Alassane Dramane Ouattara too...

Monrovia denied the charges then pledged its full cooperation to Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara issuing lists of wanted ex-mercenaries closing the border helping to send Ivorian suspects home and launching ‘Operation Restore Hope’ in the east...

The official request came on 4 September and announced by the Ecowas Chairman Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara the next day...

Ecowas Chairman Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara has taken this as a slight despite their previously warm relations because he had already tasked Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan with this job...

Most regional heads of state – Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan Côte d'Ivoire's Alassane Dramane Ouattara Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Benin's Thomas Yayi Boni (who currently chairs the African Union) – will attend...

After seven regional summits on the Mali and Guinea-Bissau crises in just five months President Alassane Dramane Ouattara is determined to reinforce West Africa's defences against coups d'état...

Crimes committed before the civil war of 2011 should be treated differently from those committed by both sides during the conflict Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Dramane Ouattara argues...

Of his cheerleaders only three presidents – Gabon’s Ali Ben Bongo Côte d’Ivoire’s Alassane Dramane Ouattara and Burkina Faso’s Blaise Compaoré – helped at the conference...