Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

The matter is made even more delicate by the brooding presence of Alassane Dramane Ouattara IMF Deputy Managing Director and still Bédié's major political rival (AC Vol 39 No 6)...

They know that with growing discontent in Alassane Ouattara's main political base the Muslim north (despite an economic boom in Abidjan) political campaigning in two years' time will be tough...

French officials are already trying to dissuade Alassane Dramane Ouattara Ivorian former Premier and now IMF Deputy Managing Director from again standing for the presidency against Bédié in the year 2000...

Like Coulibally and Kobina Diabate was a minister from 1991-93 in the government of Premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara which ended with the death of President Félix Houphouët-Boigny...

On a visit to Addis Ababa last month IMF Deputy Managing Director Alassane Dramane Ouattara underlined the Fund's irritation that a $170 mn...

Yet the government is unlikely to allow the most credible opposition politician Alassane Dramane Ouattara to stand for the presidency in 2000...

The affair though has caused ructions in Paris where some have not forgiven Compaoré for his support for Alassane Dramane Ouattara in Côte d'Ivoire and would like him replaced by someone closer to President Henri Konan Bédié such as Roch Christian Kaboré...

Guéi a Yacouba who comes from the same part of the western region as oppositionist Laurent Gbagbo has been accused of supporting ex-Premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara now a Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund in Washington...

The ruling party has invited people from the FPI and Rassemblement des Républicains (which wanted Alassane Ouattara as its presidential candidate last year) to a forthcoming meeting of its own...

• Alassane Dramane Ouattara a Deputy Managing Director of the IMF and seen as a follower of the American liberal tradition was not allowed to stand for President in Côte d'Ivoire last October...

Appointed army chief by President Félix Houphouët-Boigny in 1990 Guéi became close to the then-Premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara (AC Vol 36 No 21)...