Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

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...

Booed by the throngs who came to bury and praise Bongo French President Nicolas Sarkozy highlighted his close relationship with Ivorian opposition candidate Alassane Dramane Ouattara and fuelled incumbent President Gbagbo's considerable paranoia about French intentions...

After mediation by the government of Burkina Faso this was agreed by Ivorian political leaders including the former Prime Minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO) of the mainly northern and Muslim Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR) who was prevented from standing in 2000...

His Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI) was founded in 1988 and he contrived to make it a member of the Socialist International despite its platform of xenophobia against incomers from the north of the country such as Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO) by making his tribal rhetoric sound like patriotism...

The authorities now talk of reconciliation but until recently they favoured their own citizens to the point of banning former Premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara from standing for President in previous claiming he was Burkinabè...

The main opposition still comes from Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s northern Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR)...

Whether the incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo the northern leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara or the leader of the former single party the Parti Démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire Henri Konan Bédié wins China is keen to show that it will be a faithful friend...

Gbagbo's supporters still blame Alassane Dramane Ouattara the RDR leader and former Prime Minister for the September 2002 crisis saying it was his plans to hand over the country to immigrants that caused the conflict...

Alassane Dramane Ouattara 66 was an International Monetary Fund economist before turning to politics and serving as Prime Minister from 1990-93...