Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

North-south tensions became personalised in the face-off between Bédié from the south-west and Houphouët's former Premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara ('ADO') who is both northern and Muslim and a former International Monetary Fund Deputy Managing Director...

Gbagbo's inadequate concessions include acknowledging Alassane Dramane Ouattara head of the Rassemblement des Républicains as a presidential candidate...

Their ethnic background is mixed but few are from the north whose people are suspected of loyalty to the rebels and to the opposition leader former Premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara...

Bédié's Parti Démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI) hostile to Muslim northerners and their leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara kept a cautious silence...

Most Muslims northerners or immigrants support Alassane Ouattara...

Séka Séka is linked to another security firm Omeifra by the daily Ouest-France and the Ivorian Patriote which speaks for Gbagbo's main opponent ex-Premier Alassane Ouattara...

His two main opponents former President Henri Konan Bédié and ex-Premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara are in Paris working on joint strategy in the 'G7' opposition alliance that aims to force out Gbagbo...

Due to attend are President Laurent Gbagbo opposition leader Alassane Ouattara former President Henri Konan Bédié and Guillaume Soro leader of the ex-rebel Forces Nouvelles...

President Thabo Mbeki gave qualified support for a referendum on changing the constitution to let Gbagbo's arch-rival Alassane Dramane Ouattara run for president a move opposed by the Ivorian parliament and the AU...

Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo pushed through the new laws required by the Marcoussis and Accra peace accords in time to ward off UN sanctions in December but still wants a referendum on the change to Article 35 of the constitution that will enable opposition leader Alassane Ouattara to stand for president...

Gbagbo's arch-rival Alassane Ouattara Forces Nouvelles leader Guillaume Soro and the long-suffering interim Prime Minister Seydou Diarra put their side of the story during visits to South Africa last month...