But on 6 May government spokesperson Amadou Coulibaly surprised everybody: the Commission électorale indépendante (CEI) the body that had overseen every election since its creation in 2001 was to be dissolved...

‘We will not allow the president's name to be dragged through the mud ' declared government spokesman Amadou Coulibaly leaving aside the question of whether Tiani had been instructed to pin the blame on France et al by the Sahel juntas' main sponsor Russia...

The clearest indicator imaginable of the RHDP government's prevailing approach came on 25 October when spokesman Amadou Coulibaly announced that ‘the repression' had begun...

Côte d'Ivoire government spokesman Amadou Coulibaly responded laconically saying that he expected more seriousness from Burkina's military leader...

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

Born Yu Hong Wei in Shanghai in 1954 she married Amadou Coulibaly whom she met during his studies in China in the 1970s...