Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

The arrest in Tema port of Ivorian militia leader Charles Blé Goudé on 17 January will do much to improve relations between Ghana’s President John Mahama and Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara...

That is more than twice the figure that President Alassane Dramane Ouattara announced on his return from a trip to China in late 2012 (AAC Vol 5 No 11 ADO brings back the billions)...

President Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s cabinet reshuffle on 22 November emphasised old loyalties and economic competence firmly pushing neo-liberal economic buttons...

• France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius Mali’s President Dioncounda Traoré Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan and Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Dramane Ouattara (who chairs the Economic Community of West African States) want the Security Council to approve a single resolution endorsing an internationally backed military force before the end of December...

On the West African side Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara as new Chairman of Ecowas is the titular leader of the intervention but he faces a new insurgency at home from forces loyal to ousted President Laurent Gbagbo...

On 12 October the United Nations Security Council discussed a worrying report by a UN Group of Experts that says that supporters of former President Laurent Gbagbo are bent on destabilising the government of President Alassane Dramane Ouattara...

Ironically some Gbagbo loyalists appear to depend on support from within the government of President Alassane Dramane Ouattara too...

Monrovia denied the charges then pledged its full cooperation to Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara issuing lists of wanted ex-mercenaries closing the border helping to send Ivorian suspects home and launching ‘Operation Restore Hope’ in the east...

The official request came on 4 September and announced by the Ecowas Chairman Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara the next day...

Ecowas Chairman Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara has taken this as a slight despite their previously warm relations because he had already tasked Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan with this job...