Dominique Claudine Folloroux-Ouattara

A popular figure when they married former engineer Salma has been criticised by M6's inner circle not least for her business dealings including with high-profile figures like Côte d'Ivoire's First Lady Dominique Ouattara (AC Vol 59 No 17 Wrath rules)...

Less visible at present is his photogenic mother Princess Lalla Salma whose business ambitions – including an association with Côte d'Ivoire's wealthy First Lady Dominique Ouattara – have become subjects of considerable speculation...

(The 'someone' is his wife Dominique Claudine Folloroux-Ouattara whose influence over the President is unmatched but whose views on a third term are not known)...

The initial target for Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb may have been the star-studded 1 000 euro (US$1 100) per head annual gala dinner for Children of Africa a charity run by First Lady Dominique Claudine Folloroux-Ouattara...

Ouattara and his equally prolifically campaigning wife and business partner Dominique Ouattara made a series of well- advertised 'state visits' which magically transformed into campaign rallies once the official opening date for the election campaign arrived...

With the president's wife Dominique Ouattara his brother Téné Birahima Ouattara (known as 'Photocopie' because he's so like his brother) and other members of his family in business and politics complaints abound that the Ouattara clan is turning Côte d'Ivoire into a family business...

The fastest rising star of them all is Internal Affairs and Security Minister Hamed Bakayoko who is close to Dominique Claudine Ouattara...

ADO’s French Economic Advisor Philippe Serey-Eiffel heads the President’s close-knit team and is also close to the First Lady Dominique Ouattara...

There is also much focus on some Corsican-based business friends of the President’s wife Dominique Ouattara who provided vital finance during the battle...

Once the bodyguard of ADO’s wife Dominique Ouattara Coulibaly was an inveterate coup-plotter and one of those behind the ructions that plunged the country into civil war in 2002...