Félix Houphouët-Boigny

So Ouattara and Bédié may play on their former political roles in the glory days of founding President Félix Houphouët-Boigny and allude to past prosperity and national pride...

Named after the late Founding President Félix Houphouët-Boigny the opposition coalition the Rassemblement des Houphouëtistes pour la Démocratie et la Paix (RHDP) is purely a marriage of convenience...

Everywhere even in Gagnoa there have been protests and demonstrations organised by the opposition coalition the Rassemblement des Houphouëtistes pour la Démocratie et la Paix (RHDP named after the country’s founding President Félix Houphouët-Boigny)...

ADO said his first act as President would be to enforce the late President Félix Houphouët-Boigny’s decision to move the capital from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro...

Yet no current leader - Presidents Laurent Gbagbo Paul Biya Blaise Compaoré or Denis Sassou-Nguesso - can fulfil the role pioneered by Côte d'Ivoire's President Félix Houphouët-Boigny and continued by the 'Grand Camarade'...

Bédié like Ouattara served under founding President Félix Houphouët-Boigny (see Box) and his PDCI claims the legacy of Houphouët and therefore legitimacy...

A trio of veterans compete to fill the shoes of Côte d'Ivoire's founding President Félix Houphouët-Boigny...

The mineral rush reverses the policy of the country’s founding father Félix Houphouët-Boigny who saw agriculture as the motor of development...

Gbagbo built his reputation as the leader of a university staff union who fought for democracy against the one-party state of the late founding President Félix Houphouët-Boigny...

In 1960 Nkrumah made a wager with the founding father of Côte d'Ivoire Félix Houphouët-Boigny that Ghana's radical industrialisation and pan-African diplomatic strategy would prevail against the Ivorian leader's pro-Western alignment and pro-market economic policies...