Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

Guy Laberti an academic and an Africanist favours a proper election in Côte d'Ivoire to include Alassane Ouattara and Bédié - provided that Laurent Gbagbo wins...

The other burning issue is still that of 'Ivoirité' a concept that Bédié's team invented in order to keep Alassane Dramane Ouattara out of the presidential race on the grounds that he was really Burkinabè...

The other side of this coin is increased power for the northern largely Muslim groups of whom Alassane Ouattara is one...

On 25 March interviewed by Le Monde he called on General Robert Gueï of Côte d'Ivoire to retire from the army and 'wait a little while' if he intended to stand for election and to allow Alassane Dramane Ouattara back into political life...

His brother Jean-Baptiste was Chef de Cabinet to Alassane Dramane Ouattara when he was Premier and strongly backed ADO's bid for the presidency when founding President Félix Houphouët-Boigny died in December 1993...

Meanwhile the civilian presidential candidates Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI) leader Laurent Gbagbo and Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR) contender Alassane Ouattara quarrel over ministries in the army-backed transitional government; the barons of the once ruling Parti Démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire-Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (PDCI-RDA) are in shock having lost their perennial power...

The influence of the Dioula-speaking mainly Muslim north will increase with the end of Bédié and his 'Ivoirité' doctrine which discriminated against the north and his rival former Premier Alassane Ouattara...

Too many civilians and soldiers think the coup has been hijacked for the benefit of Alassane Dramane Ouattara leader of the Rassemblement des Républicains and former Prime Minister...

Crisis has come in the struggle by President Henri Konan Bédié to exclude from next year's presidential election the recently retired Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Alassane Dramane Ouattara...

Relations between Bédie's government and Washington are deteriorating rapidly after strong words over the arrests of supporters of former Premier and Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Alassane Ouattara...

Now though President Henri Konan Bédié is determined to be re-elected and his government has launched a virulent campaign against his only serious rival Alassane Dramane Ouattara (AC Vol 40 No 17)...

The scandal over the embezzlement of 18 billion CFA francs of European Union aid money (AC Vol 40 No 14) has helped reduce the government's cash to fight off Alassane Dramane Ouattara's presidential challenge...

The government still claims the constitution forbids Alassane Ouattara to stand for the presidency or lead a political party but his campaign has started well; and bereft of income from traditional sources the PDCI may have more problems swinging the vote...