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Alassane Ouattara

Ivory Coast
Maurice Bandaman Ivory Coast's new ambassador in France

After intense discussions, Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara has decided to appoint Maurice Bandaman as Ivory Coast's new ambassdor in [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 20.02.2020

Ivory Coast
Guillaume Soro strives to remain a player in exile

Prevented from returning to Abidjan, the former speaker of the Ivorian parliament Guillaume Soro is pulling out all the stops to maintain the momentum of his campaign as the Ivorian government makes discreet overtures towards him.

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

Ivory Coast
Brussels and Paris at odds with Abidjan over electoral list

Until now, the European Union ambassador in Ivory Coast, Jobst von Kirchmann, had managed to smooth out all the difficulties [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

Ivory Coast
Sidi Tiémoko Touré heir apparent to Gomis

Ivory Coast's ambassador to France since 2013, the diplomat Charles Providence Gomis will be stepping down from his post in [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

Ivory Coast
Marcel Amon Tanoh in firing line of Alassane Ouattara

The Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara may be poised to sack [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 19.02.2020

Spotlight | West Africa
Erdogan's Sahelian manoeuvres

Deprived of his principal ally in Africa by the ousting of the Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir in April 2019, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been looking to the west of the continent to compensate for this loss of influence.

Subscribers only Politics 05.02.2020

Macky Sall and Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Dakar, January 28 2020.

Ivory Coast
Amadou Gon Coulibaly gets his presidential campaign up and running

Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, who is bidding to succeed Alassane Ouattara, has set up a core campaign team and has made peace with those who are sceptical about his presidential credentials.

Subscribers only Politics 05.02.2020

Ivory Coast
Sarkozy plays hard to get with Guillaume Soro

Very critical of Emmanuel Macron, the former speaker of the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 05.02.2020

Ivory Coast
Alassane Ouattara attempts to silence anti-Gon lobby

As the potential candidacy of Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly in the presidential election continues to divide the RHDP, Alassane Ouattara is backing his protégé to the hilt.

Subscribers only Politics 22.01.2020

Ivory Coast
Tokyo set to return to shores of Ébrié lagoon

With the Chinese breaking into the Ivorian market, Tokyo is angling for several large-scale projects and is using its development agency JICA and JBIC bank as tools of persuasion.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 22.01.2020

Ivory Coast
Inza Fofana becomes Ouattara's go-to man for security

In recent months, the Unité de lutte contre le grande banditisme (ULGB) commanded by Colonel Inza Fofana, which is based [...]

Subscribers only Politics 22.01.2020

Guinea
Legislative setback after Alpha Condé fails in Abidjan

Right up until the last minute, the Guinean president Alpha [...]

Subscribers only Politics 22.01.2020

West Africa
President's club disrupted by newly elected Umaro Sissoco Embalo in Bissau

From Ouagadougou to Conakry and Abidjan, the election of Umaro Sissoco Embalo as president in Guinea Bissau has gone down badly. The well-connected consultant and former prime minister has a network throughout the region.