Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

Opening another Moroccan-led project in Abidjan on 27 November M6 and his close ally Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara were accompanied by royal brother Prince Moulay Rachid and business-minded cousin Prince Moulay Ismail underlining the small royal family's role in African business...

The third ordinary congress of the Rassemblement des républicains (RDR) held in Abidjan on 9 and 10 September nine years after the second was a mass rally to celebrate the achievements of Alassane Dramane Ouattara's government and sing the praises of the President who led the party from the political wilderness in the late 1990s to centre-stage...

Shortly after the RDR congress President Alassane Dramane Ouattara and his entourage were on a plane to New York to attend the 72nd meeting of the UN General Assembly...

Government spokesperson Anne-Désirée Ouloto used a tour of her fiefdom in the country's traumatised Grand West on 20-21 May to assure everyone that president Alassane Ouattara was in full command of the situation...

Ironically only a week earlier President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré had rolled out the red carpet for his Ivorian counterpart N'Guessan's sworn political enemy President Alassane Dramane Ouattara...

He replaces President Alassane Dramane Ouattara's stalwart loyalist Daniel Kablan Duncan who was sacrificed as part of the deal that bought peace with the mutineers (AC Vol 57 No 18 Ouattara shores up legacy)...

President Alassane Dramane Ouattara's government has little enthusiasm for the difficult business of reconciliation...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the New Patriotic Party have a good relationship with neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Dramane Ouattara who was guest of honour at the swearing in ceremony in Accra on 7 January (AC Vol 58 No 1 New order tackles old debts)...

Three days earlier Akufo-Addo will host at his inauguration a clutch of African leaders including Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari Côte d'Ivoire's Alassane Dramane Ouattara Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn who is on an extended trip to Ghana...

Chad's President Idris Déby Itno and Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Dramane Ouattara were in town but did not turn up to the Forum even though their countries are due for APRM treatment next year...

Keeping the gunmen at bay is one reason that President Alassane Dramane Ouattara has launched a constitutional review...

Cross-border politicsThe decision is consistent with the promise which Kaboré made to President Alassane Dramane Ouattara of Côte d'Ivoire during January's African Union Summit in Addis Ababa Ethiopia...