Henri Konan Bédié

Crisis has come in the struggle by President Henri Konan Bédié to exclude from next year's presidential election the recently retired Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Alassane Dramane Ouattara...

If he refuses the blandishments of those encouraging him to go for a third term Konaré will further stand out from his fellow long-standing Francophone leaders Côte d'Ivoire's Henri Konan-Bédié and Senegal's Abdou Diouf - both of whom face elections next year which threaten to degenerate into chaos and violence...

Now though President Henri Konan Bédié is determined to be re-elected and his government has launched a virulent campaign against his only serious rival Alassane Dramane Ouattara (AC Vol 40 No 17)...

The response of President Henri Konan Bédié's government is to sack three ministers in charge of visibly failed policies where the World Bank and International Monetary Fund insist on reform...

Despite their efforts Ivorian President Henri Konan Bédié and Malabo's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo stayed away...

When the International Monetary Fund accuses Côte d'Ivoire of opaque accounting (repeatedly) President Henri Konan Bédié blames his rival Alassane Dramane Ouattara (also repeatedly AC Vol 40 No 8)...

President Henri Konan Bédié's attempts to make political capital out of his government's problems with the International Monetary Fund have badly misfired...

While the 50 per cent devaluation in 1994 did more good than harm governments are scared of raising the price of imports in capitals such as Abidjan and Dakar where Côte d’Ivoire’s Henri Konan Bédié and Senegal’s veteran Abdou Diouf face awkward elections next year...

More exciting (and better covered in the lively local press) is the battle for political power between President Henri Konan Bédié and former Premier and current IMF Deputy Managing Director Alassane Dramane Ouattara who is due back in Abidjan in July to challenge Bédié for the presidency in the run up to the elections next year...

Any diplomatic damage caused by the postponement of President Henri Konan Bédié’s official visit to Britain (AC Vol 39 No 24) seems to have been repaired fast...