Today Issoufou is earning international plaudits for stepping down at the end of his second mandate as the term limit requires – rather than seeking to amend it as his Guinean and Ivorian counterparts Alpha Condé and Alassane Ouattara have done (AC Vol 61 No 22 Condé shrugs off poll doubts & Ouattara sweeps half the board)...
49% of the votes in the 18 October elections was credible or not matters little to President Alpha Condé and his governing team...
Three-time presidential challenger Cellou Dalein Diallo decided on 19 October that the best way to respond to the almost certain victory at the polls of the incumbent Alpha Condé was to declare himself the winner before the count was over...
The presidents of Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire Alpha Condé and Alassane Ouattara have been most vociferous in their hard line against Mali (AC Vol 61 No 17 The junta haggles on transition) and will not have taken kindly to remarks made by their counterpart from Guinea Bissau...
Regional presidents with the hawkish Alassane Ouattara of Côte d'Ivoire and Guinea's Alpha Condé in the lead started out by demanding IBK's return backed by draconian sanctions the closure of all borders and the suspension of all trade links...
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It was said to be influenced by Alpha Condé and Alassane Ouattara the Presidents of Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire who are both standing for constitutionally questionable re-elections to third terms this year...
President Alpha Condé has held up his end of a secret bargain with Israeli mining billionaire Beny Steinmetz now that Conakry's prosecutors have dropped all bribery charges against officials and members of the entourage of Condé's late predecessor Lansana Conté...
President Alpha Condé got what he wanted: a 92% 'yes' vote in the constitutional referendum which was held on 22 March alongside a long overdue legislative election which the opposition boycotted...
Late on 28 February President Alpha Condé made an unexpected appearance on national television admitting he had been pressured into delaying the double poll he had called for 1 March...
In his New Year address to the nation President Alpha Condé confirmed his plans to submit a new constitution to a popular referendum...
