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Côte d'Ivoire

Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Date of Birth: 18 October 1905
Died: 7 December 1993


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Pillars of the regime

President Blaise Compaoré is married to Chantal Terrasson de Fougères a protégée of the late Ivorian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny...


Boycotts and masks

The picture is muddied by the Rassemblement des houphouëtistes pour la démocratie et la paix named after yet another President the late founding father Félix Houphouët-Boigny...


Independents in name

The national political capital (and birthplace of the late President Félix Houphouët-Boigny) Yamoussoukro sees two independents face one RHDP candidate; the city is likely to remain in Houphouëtist hands...


Who’s who in mines

He served under Founding President Félix Houphouët-Boigny as Hydrocarbons Director from 1971 to 1975 before taking up the post of Director of the Société ivoirienne de raffinage (SIR) until 1981...


ADO brings back the billions

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...


The past is another country

The leader of the rebel União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola the late Jonas Savimbi had a good relationship with the founding Ivorian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny...


Bringing peace to the military

To help improve the military’s image the FRCI will be renamed the Forces Armées Nationales de Côte d’Ivoire as they were called in the era of founding President Félix Houphouët-Boigny...


100 days of ADO

Government newspapers such as Fraternité Matin and Le Patriote rejoiced at Ouattara’s meeting with US President Barack Obama on 29 July pointing out that he was the first Ivorian president to be received at the White House since Founding President Félix Houphouët-Boigny...


Two presidents, one crisis

Ouattara who has majority support in the north and substantial backing in the centre partly because of his alliance with supporters of the late founding President Félix Houphouët-Boigny has to turn his diplomatic backing into real pressure...


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