Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

With or without constitutional reform confrontation is inevitable sooner or later over whether RDR leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara should be allowed to stand in the presidential election...

He has since fallen out with both opposition leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara's Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR) and the main rebel Mouvement Patriotique de la Côte d'Ivoire (MPCI)...

The association of traditional chiefs of northern Côte d'Ivoire which is led by Alassane Ouattara's elder brother Gaoussou Dramane Ouattara wrote to French President Jacques Chirac saying IB was the victim of a 'cabal'...

IB's relations with Ivorian opposition leader Alassane Ouattara have deteriorated and he is said to be jealous of Guillaume Soro head of the Mouvement Patriotique de la Côte d'Ivoire for taking the mantle he feels is rightly his...

His supporters compare him to Côte d'Ivoire's opposition politician Alassane Dramane Ouattara who also lives in exile excluded from elections and accused of being foreign...

The row sets the FPI against the country's other political parties in an interesting realignment: only weeks ago everyone was united against Alassane Ouattara's main opposition Rassemblement des Républicains...

In the event the Defence portfolio went to the FPI's Assou Adou while the Interior Ministry will be headed by Fofana Zemogo the mild-mannered Foreign Affairs Spokesperson of the opposition Rassemblement des Républicains who is said to have fallen out with party leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara...

Around President Laurent Gbagbo is a hard core which is fiercely opposed to the Marcoussis peace accord and firmly convinced of the truth of Pastor Moïse Koré's assertion that opposition leader Alassane Ouattara is the devil incarnate...

Alassane Ouattara who is more often abroad than at home is probably now unelectable...

A minority Diahanké and one-time directeur de cabinet for Ivorian former Prime Minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara he made a good impression on Guineans who associate him with a time when the power supply was reliable...

Former Prime Minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara was back in the limelight after weeks of seclusion in the French Embassy in Abidjan and then in Gabon...

The latest political victims of the crisis (AC Vol 43 No 22) include opposition leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara who spent ten weeks holed up in the French Embassy complex before France organised his departure to Gabon on 27 November...

It quotes a dissident Ivorian army lieutenant Michel Déon who is in custody in Conakry as saying that Touré (who in a less xenophobic Ivorian era was Alassane Ouattara's Directeur de cabinet before becoming Guinean Premier) tried to recruit him to topple Conté...