Ahoua Don Mello

PPA-CI refugee Ahoua Don Mello has publicly asked where the money has gone while the PDCI is demanding not only an audit but a commission of inquiry citing what it calls ‘a complete lack of transparency'...

This followed sanctions against two of his most trusted lieutenants Ahoua Don Mello and Stéphane Kipré...

Don Mello and 14 colleagues appeared before the party's disciplinary council headed by Executive President Sébastien Dano Djédjé on 8 April over their defiance of the party's directive – effectively Gbagbo's – that no one should stand as a presidential candidate...

Don Mello said he had ‘no regrets'...

Jean-Louis Billon a trade minister under Ouattara and the ex-CEO of Sifca the country's largest agro-industrial conglomerate was dumped by Tidjane Thiam from his Parti démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI) for the same reason that ex-president Laurent Gbagbo got rid of trusted lieutenant Ahoua Don Mello at the Parti des peoples africains – Côte d'Ivoire (PPA-CI) – they both suggested alternative candidate should the leaders were banned which duly happened...

Don Mello is the only remaining challenger and he has ditched the standard moderate opposition agenda...

A fascinating contest is shaping up in the central Moronou region where another Gbagbo hard-man Don Mello Ahoua will cross swords with Gbagbo's former prime-minister-turned-adversary Pascal Affi N'Guessan whose fief this is...

A fascinating contest is shaping up in the central Moronou region where another Gbagbo hard-man Don Mello Ahoua will cross swords with Gbagbo's former prime-minister-turned-adversary Pascal Affi N'Guessan whose fief this is...

FPI leaders who refuse to come home from exile include the high-profile Damana Pickass Justin Koné Katinan Bertin Kadet and Don Mello (AC Vol 53 No 21 Gbagbo's Ghana connection)...

The opposition-dominated CEI had been suspicious of the close relationship between Gbagbo and Don Mello a close political associate...