Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

Three days after the three leaders had defected Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara sent his National Assembly Speaker and former warlord Guillaume Soro to Ouagadougou...

Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Dramane Ouattara said his country's civil conflict over the past decade had deadlocked advances in development but he added that the economy had started moving again under a national reconstruction plan aiming to create 200 000 jobs a year...

President Alassane Dramane Ouattara's government is sending undercover agents to Ghana to abduct or assassinate supporters of former President Laurent Ggabo there according to senior security sources in Accra...

Ouérémi was allied to the Forces républicaines de Côte d’Ivoire which backed Alassane Dramane Ouattara...

Compaoré’s ties with the commanders of the Ivorian rebellion in 2002 their leader Guillaume Soro and with Alassane Dramane Ouattara now President rendered him suspect as a mediator in Côte d’Ivoire’s crisis in the eyes of the supporters of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo...

He has good contacts with Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and the two biggest players in Ivorian politics President Alassane Dramane Ouattara and former rebel leader Guillaume Soro now National Assembly President...

For now he has President Alassane Ouattara’s protection but if Ouattara moved against him Soro’s ties to the military-economic network would make him a dangerous adversary...

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)...