Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

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...

South Africa started poorly by failing to endorse the Economic Community of West African States’ planned military intervention to enforce the results of last November’s Ivorian presidential poll won by Alassane Dramane Ouattara...

Luanda appears willing to forget its past strong support for Côte d’Ivoire’s then President Laurent Gbagbo and reconcile with his successor Alassane Dramane Ouattara but there is much to forgive say sources in both countries (AC Vol 52 No 20 New leaf)...

Some think Alassane Ouattara’s government might use that as leverage to encourage Angola to be friendly...

An Abidjan source claims the ICC had strong evidence of Blé Goudé’s involvement in the ‘Article 125’ atrocities so named after the call went out for 100 CFA francs for petrol plus 25 francs for a packet of matches – meant for setting fire to northerners or supporters of Alassane Dramane Ouattara...

When Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf visited Luanda in September Angola asked her to help mend fences with Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO) say Abidjan sources...