Most regional heads of state – Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan Côte d'Ivoire's Alassane Dramane Ouattara Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Benin's Thomas Yayi Boni (who currently chairs the African Union) – will attend...
Vol 53 No 16 |
- WEST AFRICA
After seven regional summits on the Mali and Guinea-Bissau crises in just five months President Alassane Dramane Ouattara is determined to reinforce West Africa's defences against coups d'état...
Vol 53 No 16 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Crimes committed before the civil war of 2011 should be treated differently from those committed by both sides during the conflict Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Dramane Ouattara argues...
Of his cheerleaders only three presidents – Gabon’s Ali Ben Bongo Côte d’Ivoire’s Alassane Dramane Ouattara and Burkina Faso’s Blaise Compaoré – helped at the conference...
Togo arrested ex-President Laurent Gbagbo's Defence Minister Moïse Lida Kouassi on 6 June and deported him to Côte d'Ivoire on suspicion of attempting to destabilise President Alassane Dramane Ouattara's government...
Vol 53 No 9 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
The government of President Alassane Dramane Ouattara hoping to tempt foreign investors says that law and order have been restored...
Ecowas’s handling of the crisis is seen as a success for its Chairman Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara...
On Côte d’Ivoire last year Ecowas argued that the election winner Alassane Dramane Ouattara was the rightful President and it was prepared to intervene militarily to enforce the result...
Vol 53 No 3 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
President Alassane Dramane Ouattara is trying to move the economy away from an over-reliance on agriculture which accounts for 40% of gross domestic product and into mining and oil...
Vol 53 No 3 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
He warns that Petroci won’t be signing questionable contracts as was once the case and dismisses criticism that he is part of President Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s old-boy network...