Vol 54 No 12 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Justice may have to wait 7th June 2013 The government claims it treats both sides’ atrocities in the recent fighting even-handedly – it may prefer to let the reconciliation process slide Militia leader Amadé Ouérémi has handed himself in for trial for the worst massacre of the 2010-11 post-election crisis, the slaughter of 3,000 people at Duékoué in March...
Vol 54 No 10 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Com-Zone, come all 10th May 2013 The Forces Nouvelles plundered the area they controlled when they were confined to the north of the country, says the latest report by the United Nations Panel of...
Vol 54 No 8 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Boycotts and masks 12th April 2013 Many independent candidates are standing in the local elections but that doesn’t lessen the main political divide At least half of the candidates which the Commission électorale indépendante (CEI) has accepted for the regional and municipal elections on 21 April are running as independents. On...
Vol 54 No 8 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Independents in name 12th April 2013 In Abidjan’s large suburb of Yopougon, seven of nine candidates are standing as independents, with one candidate from the Parti démocratique de Côte d’Ivoire-Rassemblement démocratique africain and the...
Vol 54 No 2 | CÔTE D'IVOIREGHANA Blé Goudé arrested 18th January 2013 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...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 10 | CÔTE D'IVOIRECHINA Billions for ADO 5th August 2013 Beijing state banks to lend billions to Ouattara In July, Development and Planning Minister Albert Mabri Toikeusse revealed that negotiations are under way between the Abidjan government and China’s state-run policy banks that will provide the...
Vol 53 No 25 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Soro clouds economic revival 14th December 2012 Ouattara’s new cabinet of bankers and economists underlines his determination to raise living standards but what about human rights? President Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s cabinet reshuffle on 22 November emphasised old loyalties and economic competence, firmly pushing neo-liberal economic buttons. Out from the premiership went consensus man Jeannot...
Vol 53 No 21 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Ouattara under threat again 19th October 2012 Ex-President Gbagbo’s supporters in Accra are planning guerrilla attacks over the border and may even have reached out to Mali’s jihadist rebels On 12 October, the United Nations Security Council discussed a worrying report by a UN Group of Experts that says that supporters of former President Laurent Gbagbo are...
Vol 53 No 21 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Gbagbo’s Ghana connection 19th October 2012 Former President Laurent Gbagbo’s loyalists fled to Ghana in droves when he was finally deposed in April 2011. They did so hoping for political support from Jerry Rawlings,...
Vol 53 No 16 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Ivorian justice questioned 3rd August 2012 Crimes committed before the civil war of 2011 should be treated differently from those committed by both sides during the conflict, Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Dramane Ouattara argues.