Vol 49 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
An election this year would involve the leaders of the big three parties: former Prime Minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara of the Rassemblement des Républicains; former President Henri Konan Bédié of the Parti Démocratique de la Côte d’Ivoire; and Gbagbo...
Vol 48 No 20 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
The old mainstream politicians - Alassane Dramane Ouattara and ex-President Henri Konan Bédié - have been marginalised by the Gbagbo-Soro pact but are sceptical about its success...
Its members are with Soro and Gbagbo: peace-broker Blaise Campaoré (who now faces the indignity of having his personal assets investigated for signs of corrupt enrichment in France) President of Burkina Faso; Henri Konan Bédié PDCI leader and Ivorian former President (1993-99); Alassane Dramane Ouattara Prime Minister 1990-93 head of the Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR) and bête noire of Gbagbo's Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI)...
Vol 48 No 6 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Most are northern Ivorians who back former Prime Minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara and have been refused identity papers - or had them confiscated...
Vol 47 No 8 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
North-south tensions became personalised in the face-off between Bédié from the south-west and Houphouët's former Premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara ('ADO') who is both northern and Muslim and a former International Monetary Fund Deputy Managing Director...
Vol 47 No 4 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Gbagbo's inadequate concessions include acknowledging Alassane Dramane Ouattara head of the Rassemblement des Républicains as a presidential candidate...
Vol 46 No 23 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Their ethnic background is mixed but few are from the north whose people are suspected of loyalty to the rebels and to the opposition leader former Premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara...
Vol 46 No 22 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Bédié's Parti Démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI) hostile to Muslim northerners and their leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara kept a cautious silence...
Most Muslims northerners or immigrants support Alassane Ouattara...
Vol 46 No 18 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Séka Séka is linked to another security firm Omeifra by the daily Ouest-France and the Ivorian Patriote which speaks for Gbagbo's main opponent ex-Premier Alassane Ouattara...
Vol 46 No 14 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
His two main opponents former President Henri Konan Bédié and ex-Premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara are in Paris working on joint strategy in the 'G7' opposition alliance that aims to force out Gbagbo...