Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

In Côte d’Ivoire Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Jiang Yu said that China respects the recognition by the Economic Community of West African States of Alassane Dramane Ouattara as President without disclosing Beijing’s position...

As Africa Confidential went to press troops had fired on supporters of Alassane Dramane Ouattara killing at least four as they try to march on the state broadcasting company...

In the north clearly Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO) will win while President Laurent Gbagbo will take the Bete vote in the west and many votes in Abidjan the commercial capital...

3% of the vote according to provisional results) will face Alassane Dramane Ouattara (who won 32...

Under the terms of a pre-election pact with Alassane Ouattara Konan Bédié is now meant to instruct his supporters to back him against Gbagbo...

Ex-FN leader and Prime Minister Guillaume Soro may mediate between Gbagbo and his rival Alassane Dramane Ouattara in the second round...

The reaction of opposition leader and former president Henri Konan Bédié of the Parti démocratique de Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI) has been muted but former premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s Rassemblement des républicains (RDR) insists that the election date must be ‘definitive’ this time and that identity and polling cards must be distributed before the end of September...

As president Bédié prevented Alassane Ouattara from running by claiming that one of his parents was from Burkina so he was not a ‘true citizen’...

Political activists of all tendencies are increasingly frustrated by the old guard of Laurent Gbagbo (65 years old) Henri Konan Bédié (76) and Alassane Dramane Ouattara (68)...

The big rival parties are the Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR) led by Alassane Dramane Ouattara and including many northern Muslims and ex-President Henri Konan Bédié’s Parti Démocratique de Côte d’Ivoire solidly based among the mainly southern Akan-speakers especially the Baoulé...

Gbagbo seems to have achieved one of his objectives by setting leaders such as Konan Bédié and Alassane Ouattara against their followers...

Former President Henri Konan Bédié and former Prime Minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO) through the Rassemblement des Houphouëtistes pour la Démocratie et la Paix have agreed a mutual support pact in a hoped-for second round of voting...

He has a degree from the prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration in Paris and was head of the office of Alassane Dramane Ouattara when he was Ivorian Prime Minister...