Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

Since 23 January cocoa exports have largely stopped after the internationally acknowledged presidential election winner Alassane Dramane Ouattara demanded a month-long ban on exports...

Alassane Ouattara had sent a letter to the organisation of cocoa exporters the Bourse du Café et du Cacao saying that paying tax to Laurent Gbagbo who refuses to quit the presidency was illegal and that exporters who defied his ban could be prosecuted by local and international courts...

There are also claims that helicopters are flying prostitutes to the Golf Hotel for Alassane Dramane Ouattara and his entourage that ADO is mentally defective in intensive care or even dead...

His election-winning rival Alassane Dramane Ouattara has corralled a wide range of support discreetly helped by French and United States’ diplomats along with the good offices of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon...

He will be hoping that the similarities with the career of Alassane Dramane Ouattara who also goes by three initials ‘ADO’ and also served with the International Monetary Fund – will end there...

The charge was aired in a French television documentary on Françafrique recently and Obame has been making direct comparisons with the situation in Côte d’Ivoire with Ali Bongo in the role of Laurent Gbagbo and Obame as Alassane Ouattara...

In Côte d’Ivoire Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Jiang Yu said that China respects the recognition by the Economic Community of West African States of Alassane Dramane Ouattara as President without disclosing Beijing’s position...

As Africa Confidential went to press troops had fired on supporters of Alassane Dramane Ouattara killing at least four as they try to march on the state broadcasting company...

In the north clearly Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO) will win while President Laurent Gbagbo will take the Bete vote in the west and many votes in Abidjan the commercial capital...

3% of the vote according to provisional results) will face Alassane Dramane Ouattara (who won 32...

Under the terms of a pre-election pact with Alassane Ouattara Konan Bédié is now meant to instruct his supporters to back him against Gbagbo...

Ex-FN leader and Prime Minister Guillaume Soro may mediate between Gbagbo and his rival Alassane Dramane Ouattara in the second round...