Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

Ecowas’s handling of the crisis is seen as a success for its Chairman Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara...

On Côte d’Ivoire last year Ecowas argued that the election winner Alassane Dramane Ouattara was the rightful President and it was prepared to intervene militarily to enforce the result...

President Alassane Dramane Ouattara is trying to move the economy away from an over-reliance on agriculture which accounts for 40% of gross domestic product and into mining and oil...

He warns that Petroci won’t be signing questionable contracts as was once the case and dismisses criticism that he is part of President Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s old-boy network...

Ex-President Laurent Gbagbo’s trial at the Hague may raise ethnic and political tension but if President Alassane Dramane Ouattara can keep the lid on this the promising economic prospects may help the country to recover well from the recent violence...

As soon as he touched down at Abidjan's Felix Houphouët-Boigny airport on his return from the 19-20 July fifth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing President Alassane Dramane Ouattara briefed the press on China's plans to invest some US$3-5 billion in Côte d'Ivoire...

Foreign and finance ministers from more than 50 African countries attended but only a handful of heads of state and government were present notably South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Dramane Ouattara and Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga...

Tata had originally planned to invest US$1 billion in Mount Nimba but the new government of President Alassane Dramane Ouattara has been unwilling to seek an alternative...

The two former coalition partners – the mainly Muslim and northern Rassemblement des républicains (RDR) led by President Alassane Dramane Ouattara and the mainly southern once ruling Parti démocratique de Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI) led by ex-President Henri Konan Bédié – have effectively split up the countries’ constituencies between them...

After pressure from the UN President Alassane Dramane Ouattara asked that Gbagbo be allowed more exercise...