Ahoua Don Mello

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...