Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

Privately Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara was livid about the putsch by the former bodyguards of his old friend Blaise Compaoré Africa Confidential understands as it lent ample ammunition to his political opponents and threatened to derail his re-election campaign (see Box Where was Blaise)...

Compaoré's support for the former Forces nouvelles guerrillas in northern Côte d'Ivoire was the foundation of his warm relations today with President Alassane Ouattara and Parliament Speaker Guillaume Soro...

This is curious as his old friend Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara told local journalists as early as 27 July that friend Blaise was fine and recovering well...

President Alassane Ouattara made a few non-committal statements and went on with his re-election campaign...

Once President Alassane Dramane Ouattara had announced last year that he would seek a second term he was the clear favourite to win the election due this October given the strengthening economy and the disarray among his opponents...

The two men served as ministers at the time of Houphouët's death in 1993 when the Prime Minister was one Alassane Dramane Ouattara...

M6's strongest links south of the Sahara are with Senegal's President Macky Sall Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara and Gabon's President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba...

At home Bictogo is close to President Alassane Dramane Ouattara and a bigwig in his Rassemblement des républicains which dominates the coalition government...

Alassane Dramane Ouattara's government looks on in delight stoking the FPI's internal fires while ostensibly keeping its distance...

Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Dramane Ouattara and his wife Danielle Folloroux-Ouattara were accorded a glitzy state visit providing photos for Ola Maroc and other glossies in the company of popular and photogenic royal wife Lalla Selma as dozens of bilateral co-operation agreements were signed...

President Alassane Dramane Ouattara won the 2010 election as the candidate for the alliance between his own Rassemblement des républicains (RDR) and the former single party the Parti démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire still led by the octogenarian Henri Konan Bédié (AC Vol 55 No 2 Long shadow of 2011)...

United Nations' investigators have warned the UN Security Council that Ivorian and Liberian fighters opposed to Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Dramane Ouattara are likely to multiply in the run-up to his country's elections next October...