Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

When the International Monetary Fund accuses Côte d'Ivoire of opaque accounting (repeatedly) President Henri Konan Bédié blames his rival Alassane Dramane Ouattara (also repeatedly AC Vol 40 No 8)...

Bédié had insinuated that the IMF whose Deputy Managing Director is Bédié's arch political rival Alassane Dramane Ouattara was taking an unreasonably tough negotiating stance over Abidjan's three-year structural adjustment programme...

More exciting (and better covered in the lively local press) is the battle for political power between President Henri Konan Bédié and former Premier and current IMF Deputy Managing Director Alassane Dramane Ouattara who is due back in Abidjan in July to challenge Bédié for the presidency in the run up to the elections next year...

The matter is made even more delicate by the brooding presence of Alassane Dramane Ouattara IMF Deputy Managing Director and still Bédié's major political rival (AC Vol 39 No 6)...

They know that with growing discontent in Alassane Ouattara's main political base the Muslim north (despite an economic boom in Abidjan) political campaigning in two years' time will be tough...

French officials are already trying to dissuade Alassane Dramane Ouattara Ivorian former Premier and now IMF Deputy Managing Director from again standing for the presidency against Bédié in the year 2000...

Like Coulibally and Kobina Diabate was a minister from 1991-93 in the government of Premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara which ended with the death of President Félix Houphouët-Boigny...

On a visit to Addis Ababa last month IMF Deputy Managing Director Alassane Dramane Ouattara underlined the Fund's irritation that a $170 mn...

Yet the government is unlikely to allow the most credible opposition politician Alassane Dramane Ouattara to stand for the presidency in 2000...

The affair though has caused ructions in Paris where some have not forgiven Compaoré for his support for Alassane Dramane Ouattara in Côte d'Ivoire and would like him replaced by someone closer to President Henri Konan Bédié such as Roch Christian Kaboré...

Guéi a Yacouba who comes from the same part of the western region as oppositionist Laurent Gbagbo has been accused of supporting ex-Premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara now a Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund in Washington...

The ruling party has invited people from the FPI and Rassemblement des Républicains (which wanted Alassane Ouattara as its presidential candidate last year) to a forthcoming meeting of its own...