Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

President Alassane Dramane Ouattara is earning international praise and strong flows of cash for reconstruction...

President Alassane Dramane Ouattara is attempting to stabilise the military by reconciling former opponents while seeking to remove undisciplined elements...

His rival and internationally recognised Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara says relations with South Africa are now excellent...

Security jitters and financial worries have haunted President Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s first 100 days suggesting he is yet to entrench himself in office after a bloody six-month stand-off with his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo...

The four Presidents – Benin’s Thomas Yayi Boni Côte d’Ivoire’s Alassane Dramane Ouattara Guinea’s Alpha Condé and Niger’s Mahamadou Issoufou – present themselves as symbols of a new democratic wave in Francophone Africa...

After his grand inauguration at Yamoussoukro on 21 May and pronouncements on the need for Ivorians to reconcile and rebuild the country one of new President Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s most urgent if more prosaic tasks is to reform the cocoa sector...

President Abdoulaye Wade warmly welcomed Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s victory at the polls...

ADO's woes The difficulties facing President Alassane Dramane Ouattara (‘ADO’) in reconciling former enemies emerged again in the 6 May inauguration ceremony...

There is no question that Coulibaly’s arrival in Abidjan last December and his command of clandestine military operations against the regime of Laurent Gbagbo helped turn events in favour of Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)...

Almost before Blaise Compaoré had a chance to celebrate the installation of his friend Alassane Dramane Ouattara as President of neighbouring Côte d’Ivoire he had to deal with the most serious challenge to his power since he seized the presidency from another friend Thomas Sankara in 1987...