Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

Due to attend are President Laurent Gbagbo opposition leader Alassane Ouattara former President Henri Konan Bédié and Guillaume Soro leader of the ex-rebel Forces Nouvelles...

President Thabo Mbeki gave qualified support for a referendum on changing the constitution to let Gbagbo's arch-rival Alassane Dramane Ouattara run for president a move opposed by the Ivorian parliament and the AU...

Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo pushed through the new laws required by the Marcoussis and Accra peace accords in time to ward off UN sanctions in December but still wants a referendum on the change to Article 35 of the constitution that will enable opposition leader Alassane Ouattara to stand for president...

Gbagbo's arch-rival Alassane Ouattara Forces Nouvelles leader Guillaume Soro and the long-suffering interim Prime Minister Seydou Diarra put their side of the story during visits to South Africa last month...

He has strong support in the anti-riot Brigade Anti-Emeute though this is not universal: several feel sympathy for former Premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara particularly as they received generous stipends for protecting him at rallies during the Gueï unity government when Gen...

On 4 November the same day the loyalist army broke the ceasefire two busloads of nationalist militants arrived at Le Patriote the newspaper of Alassane Ouattara's Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR)...

The Parti Démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI) Alassane Ouattara's Rassemblement des Républicains the Union pour la Démocratie et la Paix en Côte d'Ivoire of followers of late military leader General Robert Gueï and Anaky Kobenan's Mouvement des Forces de l'Avenir plan an alliance of Houphouëtistes claiming the mantle of founding President Félix Houphouët-Boigny whose autocratic rule is now recalled as an era of unity prosperity and ethnic tolerance...

According to the timetable agreed in Accra Article 35 of the constitution which deals with eligibility for the presidency should be amended by 30 September to enable opposition leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara to run for president next year...

In this climate it will shortly fall to Justice Minister Henriette Diabaté the RDR Secretary General to introduce the amendment to Article 35 which was put into the constitution specifically to stop Alassane Ouattara her party leader from running for president...

As well as his hotline to the Elysée Gbagbo and his Front Populaire Ivoirien are suspicious of Bongo's links to opposition leader Alassane Ouattara who flew to Gabon in November 2002 after ten weeks in the sanctuary of Abidjan's French embassy...

Rather than declaring an internationally unrecognised mini-state Soro would rather fight nationwide elections alongside Alassane Dramane Ouattara's RDR and pursue his political ambitions on a national level...

The former Directeur de Cabinet of Ivorian ex-Premier-turned-opposition-leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara Touré represents at 59 a younger generation than President Lansana Conté and his veteran opponents Alpha Condé (66) and Bâ (71)...