Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

On the surface they have little to do with the two main political currents President Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s coalition and the Front populaire ivoirien (FPI) of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo who now awaits trial for human rights violations at the International Criminal Court...

No contests will take place in Kong or Odienné: Kong in the north-east will elect the sole candidate President Alassane Ouattara’s brother Téné Birahima Ouattara (nicknamed ‘Photocopie’ thanks to his resemblance to his brother)...

Their script albeit more sophisticated borrows heavily from the nationalist rhetoric of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe and Côte d’Ivoire’s Laurent Gbagbo (who now faces trial at the ICC after his successor Alassane Dramane Ouattara handed him over)...

All this still falls far short of the 8 000-strong force that Ecowas chairman and Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara said would be necessary along with some $950 mn...

Around the table were Jonathan South African President Jacob Zuma Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn...

Sall has yet to match Wade’s exhausting diplomatic forays but has worked discreetly on reducing tension in Côte d’Ivoire between President Alassane Ouattara and supporters of ousted President Laurent Gbagbo...

The arrest in Tema port of Ivorian militia leader Charles Blé Goudé on 17 January will do much to improve relations between Ghana’s President John Mahama and Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara...

That is more than twice the figure that President Alassane Dramane Ouattara announced on his return from a trip to China in late 2012 (AAC Vol 5 No 11 ADO brings back the billions)...

President Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s cabinet reshuffle on 22 November emphasised old loyalties and economic competence firmly pushing neo-liberal economic buttons...

• France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius Mali’s President Dioncounda Traoré Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan and Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Dramane Ouattara (who chairs the Economic Community of West African States) want the Security Council to approve a single resolution endorsing an internationally backed military force before the end of December...