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Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

Date of Birth: 1 January 1942
Place of Birth: Dimbokro


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A new front opens

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...


The view from the Seine

Opposition leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara dispatched to Libreville at De Villepin's instigation after ten weeks holed up in France's Abidjan embassy now looks to be out of the picture...


Whose army?

Others are deserters who fled to Burkina Faso after falling out with Gueï and support the main opposition leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara...

Alassane Ouattara's elder brother Gaoussou Dramane Ouattara is the patriarch in Kong a solidly RDR town which was once the capital of an empire founded by Emperor Sekou Ouattara in 1742...

Alassane Ouattara still holed up in the French Ambassador's residence along with the Defence Minister's family is more of a pawn than a player in this game...


A la carte

Opposition leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara was at last granted a nationality certificate on 28 June (AC Vol 43 No 10) but was still unable to vote in district council elections on 7 July...


The voters' friend

Former Prime Minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara's Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR) is expected to sweep the largely Muslim north and a strong showing for the party the only one putting up candidate lists in all the country's 58 départements is likely to encourage a new wave of opposition militancy...


Interregnum

The turning point came in February with the Yamoussoukro Agreement between four main political leaders; conciliatory noises were made but nothing definite was decided on the trickiest issues notably the nationality of opposition leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara...


The barricades again

Opposition leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara said there would be more meetings but no dates were supplied...


Bio's bio

After the departure of French Managing Director Michel Camdessus and his Ivorian second deputy Alassane Dramane Ouattara Tchane restores the Francophone presence in IMF dealings with Africa...


Busy Presidents

In neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire xenophobia is rising against migrants visitors and northern Muslims whose leader Alassane Ouattara is the most credible challenger to President Laurent Gbagbo...


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