Daniel Kablan Duncan

And like Ouattara's trusted former Prime Minister and Vice-President Daniel Kablan Duncan Achi was a senior figure in Bédié's Parti démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI)...

Vice-President Daniel Kablan Duncan and presidency chief of staff Patrick Achi are seen as other potential RHDP candidates...

President Alassane Dramane Ouattara had signalled his readiness to retire but has now postponed a final decision until mid-next year as he faces up to the reality that none of his most trusted political heirs – Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly Vice-President Daniel Kablan Duncan and Defence Minister Hamed Bakayoko – is an obvious potential election favourite...

These were hitherto seen as the RDR's Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly or Defence Minister Hamed Bakayoko and the PDCI vice-president Daniel Kablan Duncan or Energy Minister Thierry Tanoh or even the increasingly estranged Parliamentary Speaker Guillaume Soro (nominally RDR) (AC Vol 59 No 3 Jockeying for position and Vol 59 No 14 Move over grandad)...

It pit merger advocate Vice-President Daniel Kablan Duncan against PDCI Executive Secretary Maurice Kakou Guikahué who is opposed...

He replaces President Alassane Dramane Ouattara's stalwart loyalist Daniel Kablan Duncan who was sacrificed as part of the deal that bought peace with the mutineers (AC Vol 57 No 18 Ouattara shores up legacy)...

The self-effacing but effective Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan is said to be on the way out as his place is supposedly reserved for Thierry Tanoh the Harvard-trained economist who had a meteoric career that took him to the top of the pan-African Ecobank before he was sacked as Chief Executive last year (AC Vol 55 No 6 Tanoh goes as Ecobank cleans house)...

His technocrat Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan is another diplomatic asset...

Out from the premiership went consensus man Jeannot Ahoussou Kouadio while Daniel Kablan Duncan an old confidant took his place...

Gbagbo has promised to authorise the exiles' return but does not seem to want Bédié back soon although Bédié's last Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan came home on 5 October from France...