Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

His election-winning rival Alassane Dramane Ouattara has corralled a wide range of support discreetly helped by French and United States’ diplomats along with the good offices of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon...

He will be hoping that the similarities with the career of Alassane Dramane Ouattara who also goes by three initials ‘ADO’ and also served with the International Monetary Fund – will end there...

The charge was aired in a French television documentary on Françafrique recently and Obame has been making direct comparisons with the situation in Côte d’Ivoire with Ali Bongo in the role of Laurent Gbagbo and Obame as Alassane Ouattara...

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)...