Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

Former Prime Minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara's Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR) is expected to sweep the largely Muslim north and a strong showing for the party the only one putting up candidate lists in all the country's 58 départements is likely to encourage a new wave of opposition militancy...

The turning point came in February with the Yamoussoukro Agreement between four main political leaders; conciliatory noises were made but nothing definite was decided on the trickiest issues notably the nationality of opposition leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara...

Opposition leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara said there would be more meetings but no dates were supplied...

After the departure of French Managing Director Michel Camdessus and his Ivorian second deputy Alassane Dramane Ouattara Tchane restores the Francophone presence in IMF dealings with Africa...

In neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire xenophobia is rising against migrants visitors and northern Muslims whose leader Alassane Ouattara is the most credible challenger to President Laurent Gbagbo...

None of the three main opposition figures - ex President Henri Konan Bédié General Robert Gueï and ex-Premier Alassane Ouattara - turned up at the opening ceremony on 9 October...

So is the most significant opposition figure Alassane Dramane Ouattara of the Rassemblement des Républicains also in Paris...

Gbagbo says he has asked unspecified foreign countries to provide security and it is rumoured that if Alassane Ouattara and Bédié came home they would not be allowed to leave...

Loud partisan rhetoric offends them as does the exclusion from national elections of both Alassane Ouattara and his Rassemblement Démocratique Républicain and of leading figures in the former ruling Parti Démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire (AC Vol 42 No 13)...

Former President Henri Konan-Bédié and his old rival Alassane Dramane Ouattara are in exile in France while deposed military leader General Robert Gueï says he still hasn't received his invitation...

Inside delegates discussed a site for an emergency headquarters for the ADB in case Abidjan falls into chaos because of rivalry between supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo and opposition leader Alassane Ouattara (AC Vol 41 No 25)...