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Côte d'Ivoire

Amadou Gon Coulibaly

Date of Birth: 10 February 1959
Place of Birth: Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Died: 8 July 2020


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Ouattara risks his legacy if he runs again

Before the last election in 2020 he publicly argued that Côte d'Ivoire needed a generational change of leadership – before changing his mind after the sudden death of his preferred successor Amadou Gon Coulibaly (AC Vol 61 No 15 Quest for a new dauphin)...


All eyes on 2025 – and the northern border

Ever since the untimely deaths of president Alassane Ouattara's anointed successors Amadou Gon Coulibaly and Hamed Bakayoko (AC Vol 61 No 15 Quest for a new dauphin & Vol 62 No 6 Many shoes to fill) the RHDP has kicked the succession can down the road which has fuelled wild speculation and increased intra-party tensions...


What hope for the juntas' promised elections?

The death in 2023 of one former rival Henri Konan Bédié and the uncertain electoral appeal and civil status of his other key counterpart Laurent Gbagbo might persuade him to hand over to a younger generation something he had said was necessary before the 2020 election before changing his mind and running again after the sudden death of his planned successor Amadou Gon Coulibaly...


Football before politics

But two successors-in-waiting Amadou Gon Coulibaly and then Hamed Bakayoko died within less than a year of each other so the Rassemblement des houphouëtistes pour la démocratie et la paix (RHDP) leadership is working on the assumption that only Ouattara can keep the party together...


When the parties go to pieces

The President's omnipresent younger brother Téné Birahima Ouattara aka 'photocopie' was widely rumoured to be anointed his brother's dauphin after the deaths of Ouattara's first two choices Amadou Gon Coulibaly and Hamed Bakayoko but it was not to be (AC Vol 62 No 6 Many shoes to fill)...


Warrant worries

Similarly the Ivorian government spokesman Amadou Coulibaly told local media on 7 July that the government had made no decision regarding Keïta...


Old foes re-enter the ring

However having first taken on the mantle of a lofty figure far above the fray the sudden death of his preferred successor Amadou Gon Coulibaly plunged him back into the political hurly burly (AC Vol 61 No 15 Quest for a new dauphin)...


Many shoes to fill

President Alassane Ouattara – there with his wife Dominique and Bakayoko's widow and daughter – was visibly affected by his close ally's death which came less than a year after the death of Bakayoko's predecessor as Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly (AC Vol 61 No 15 Quest for a new dauphin)...


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