Côte d'IvoireCitizens decide in October 2025 whether President Alassane Ouattara should be given a fourth successive term – if he decides to run...

Although regularly touted as a potential next generation national leader he signalled no interest in returning to a political arena still dominated by incumbent president Alassane Ouattara and his predecessor and rivals Laurent Gbagbo and Bédié...

At the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) summit in Abuja the usually pacific President of Côte d'Ivoire Alassane Ouattara described Bazoum's detention as a 'terrorist act'...

The polls will see high-ranking ministers members of parliament and government officials vying for the position of mayor in the country's 201 communes or president of the 31 regional councils in the second electoral test of the newly realigned and merged political parties since the re-election of President Alassane Dramane Ouattara 81 in October 2020 (AC Vol 61 No 20 Ouattara leads in a perilous poll)...

But Alassane Ouattara also telephoned Malian junta chief Colonel Assimi Goïta with an invitation to make an official visit – just the sort of recognition of legitimacy that Bamako had been angling for...

And at Port Bouët beside Abidjan airport 900 French troops are based under a 2012 partnership agreement which came just after Paris helped President Alassane Ouattara's forces to victory over those of President Laurent Gbagbo in the unrest that followed the presidential election (AC Vol 52 No 18 Gbagbo: France's part in his downfall)...

The conditions for his return had been carefully negotiated as President Alassane Ouattara sought assurances from a man whose identity politics rhetoric used to mobilise southern youth behind then President Laurent Gbagbo at the height of the Ivorian national crisis (AC Vol 63 No 1 Après nous le déluge...

Key to UEMOA monetary strategy Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara would be a powerful advocate for Mali's readmittance to the capital market...

The Malians see Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Ouattara as a French stooge unreconciled to their newfound independence of mind and a prime architect of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) sanctions that forced them to reluctantly accept a two-year deadline for elections...