Alassane Ouattara

Palace Intrigues
Félix Tshisekedi, Faure Gnassingbé, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema

Intrigues big and small: every Thursday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

DRCJean-Claude Kabongo tags along on Tshisekedi's Doha trip

TogoGnassingbé's key role in lifting Niger and Mali sanctions

GabonAPF head Bruno Fuchs to meet Oligui Nguema

Ivory Coast
Gbagbo thanks Ouattara for pardoning jailed associates

Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo phoned the current head of state, Alassane Ouattara, on 23 February to thank him for the pardon he granted the previous day to several of his imprisoned former associates.

Ivory Coast
Government in stand-off with private digital TV channels

To protest the fact that they do not receive any state aid, three TV stations - NCI, Life TV and 7info - are refusing to pay the estimated 300m CFA francs they owe in annual broadcasting rights and other fees.

Palace Intrigues
Macky Sall, Amadou Ba, Alassane Ouattara, Henri Konan Bédié

Intrigues big and small: every Thursday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

SenegalSall and Ba's secret meeting

Ivory CoastOuattara keeps his distance from AfDB boss Adesina

Ivory CoastBédié to be laid to rest in Daoukro

Chad
N'Djamena champions its candidate for AfDB top job in Abidjan

Chad's transitional president Mahamat Idriss Déby is exploiting his Ivorian connections to support Abbas Mahamat Tolli's bid to be the next president of the African Development Bank.

Senegal
Sall's discreet phone call to Ouattara

With his country in political crisis, the Senegalese leader recently telephoned his Ivorian counterpart to discuss the postponement of Senegal's presidential election.

Ivory Coast
Macron's brand-new Africa envoy due to meet Ouattara

Emmanuel Macron's new 'personal envoy' for Africa, former minister Jean-Marie Bockel, will be in Abidjan on 20-21 February to discuss the ongoing reorganisation of France's military presence on the continent.

Ivory Coast
Ex-French president Sarkozy to attend Dominique Ouattara's gala in Abidjan

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will be in Abidjan in early March. He plans to take part in a gala organised there by Children of Africa, the foundation headed by Ivorian First Lady Dominique Ouattara.

Ivory Coast
Ouattara reorganises Treasury management team

Alassane Ouattara is expected to appoint Arthur Augustin Pascale Ahoussi, deputy director general of the Treasury, to replace his former boss Konan Jacques Assahore.

Ivory Coast
Abidjan picks banks for Eurobond issue

The Ivorian government has chosen five banks to carry out its Eurobond issue. They are Standard Chartered, Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, JPMorgan Chase, and Société Générale.

Ivory Coast
Marie-Viviane Ado Gossan takes charge of Millennium Challenge Account

Marie-Viviane Ado Gossan-Coulibaly, chief of staff and right-hand woman to the ex-secretary general in the Office of the President Abdourahmane Cissé, is about to take over as head of the Millennium Challenge Account Côte d'Ivoire.

Ivory Coast
Ouattara banks on ENI's Baleine field to plug deficit

The Ivorian president is considering using future revenues from the vast oil and gas field as collateral to raise funds, giving the government much-needed cash for its programme of major infrastructure works.

Ivory Coast
Ouattara allies squabble over Bougouanou bauxite

The mining project launched by Moumouni Bictogo has prompted rifts between shareholders close to the presidential party, and the affair has now gone to court following a complaint by Ivorian businessman Léo Guigui.