Vol 53 No 3 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Oil is the new cocoa 3rd February 2012 Ouattara puts mining and oil at the top of a campaign to diversify the economy but not without stumbles President Alassane Dramane Ouattara is trying to move the economy away from an over-reliance on agriculture, which accounts for 40% of gross domestic product, and into mining and...
Vol 53 No 3 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Who’s who in mines 3rd February 2012 Mines, Petroleum and Energy Minister Adama Toungara has the President’s ear, so he is likely to keep his position in the cabinet reshuffle many believe to be imminent.
Vol 53 No 1 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Smart money, prickly politics 6th January 2012 Tension will persist over attempts to integrate government armed forces and guerrillas, and to demobilise large numbers of soldiers Ex-President Laurent Gbagbo’s trial at the Hague may raise ethnic and political tension but if President Alassane Dramane Ouattara can keep the lid on this, the promising economic...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 11 | CÔTE D'IVOIRECHINA ADO brings back the billions 3rd September 2012 China’s interests in Côte d’Ivoire are growing and, for now, the focus is on infrastructure in a country recovering from ten years of political crisis As soon as he touched down at Abidjan's Felix Houphouët-Boigny airport on his return from the 19-20 July fifth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing, President Alassane Dramane...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 2 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Moussa Dosso 13th December 2011 Industry Minister, Côte d’Ivoire After nearly a decade of instability, Côte d’Ivoire is undergoing a slow process of revitalisation. Moussa Dosso, the Industry Minister and member of Guillaume Soro’s Forces Nouvelles, is...
Vol 52 No 24 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Gbagbo to the Hague, nation to the polls 2nd December 2011 Former coalition partners divide up the parliamentary spoils The arrest of former President Laurent Gbagbo by the International Criminal Court and his rendition to the Hague on 30 November prompted surprisingly little protest, given that 46%...
Vol 52 No 24 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE ICC bags Gbagbo first 2nd December 2011 The International Criminal Court may have accelerated the arrest and rendition of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo to the Hague because of the discovery of an apparent plot to spring...
Vol 52 No 22 | ANGOLACÔTE D'IVOIRE The past is another country 4th November 2011 More is emerging about the history of bad blood between the two countries and Luanda’s former fondness for Gbagbo Luanda appears willing to forget its past strong support for Côte d’Ivoire’s then President, Laurent Gbagbo, and reconcile with his successor, Alassane Dramane Ouattara, but there is much...
Vol 52 No 22 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE They don’t seek him here... 4th November 2011 More information is emerging about ex-President Laurent Gbagbo’s former Youth Minister, Charles Blé Goudé, leader of the Jeunes Patriotes. He has been living in luxurious exile in Ghana,...
Vol 52 No 20 | ANGOLACÔTE D'IVOIRE New leaf 7th October 2011 When Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf visited Luanda in September, Angola asked her to help mend fences with Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO), say Abidjan sources. Angolan...