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Ivory Coast
Soro simmers down

President Alassane Ouattara is under growing pressure from Henri Konan Bedie’s PDCI to honour his campaign promises and remove Guillaume Soro as prime minister. [...]

Published on 16/02/2012 at 23:01 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Alassane Ouattara
Alphonse Soro
Blaise Compaore
Daniel Kablan-Duncan
Forces nouvelles
Guillaume Soro
Henri Konan Bedie
Jeannot Ahoussou
Mathias Kakou
Parti Democratique de Cote dIvoire
Rassemblement des Republicains

Ivory Coast
Ouattara nixes Soro's parliamentary plans

Alassane Ouattara has slashed the Ivorian parliament's budget from a [...]

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Insiders | Ivory Coast
Guillaume Soro, from battle dress to business suit

Guillaume Soro has played numerous roles on his way up from student politics to rebel leader and then president of the National Assembly. In the space of less than a decade, he has been able to forge wide-ranging and varied contacts in the military, institutional and business spheres, making him a rare specimen in post-Félix Houphouët-Boigny Côte d'Ivoire.

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Ivory Coast
Guillaume Soro’s media blitz

Ivory Coast’s parliamentary speaker Guillaume Soro is making sure he stays in the public eye with the help of a new book, a documentary film project and extensive use of social networking sites.

Subscribers only Politics 03.04.2013

Ivory Coast
Kablan Duncan takes his time

Three months after becoming PM Daniel Kablan Duncan is still appointing his staff. West Africa Newsletter has the lowdown.

Subscribers only Politics 20.02.2013

Ivory Coast
Kablan rings no substantial changes

President Ouattara personally took charge of finance and defence in the recent government reshuffle but quite a few ministers have stayed on.

Subscribers only Politics 05.12.2012

Burkina Faso
Soro settles soldiers’ pay

During his recent visit to Ouagadougou Ivory Coast's Guillaume Soro gave several dozen Burkinabe soldiers hope that they may soon be paid for their role in ousting Gbagbo.

Subscribers only Politics 10.10.2012

Ivory Coast
Ahoussou under palace control

Within a short time of taking office as Prime Minister on March 12, Jeannot Ahoussou Kouadio, 61, who continues to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 28.03.2012

Ivory Coast
Soro lands speaker’s job

Everyone thought that Guillaume Soro would not become speaker of the national assembly because at 39 he was a year too young to qualify for the job. But then Ouattara stepped in.

Subscribers only Politics 14.03.2012

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Ouattara and Soro’s security woes

Despite winning a clear victory in the legislative elections on December 11, which delivered 127 seats to his Rassemblement des Republicains (RDR) and another 35 seats to allied independent candidates, out of a total 254 seats, President Alassane Ouattara remains [.

Subscribers only Politics 04.01.2012

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
French hold business reins

It's Ivory Coast's very own exception française. While the rest of Africa is rapidly going global, French interests still hold sway in French-speaking West Africa's economic powerhouse, undiminished by the arrival of Chinese and Indian investors.

Subscribers only Politics 16.11.2011

Ivory Coast
Soro swaps fatigues for suit and tie

After nearly a decade as head of Ivory Coast’s rebel movement, Prime Minister Guillaume Soro plans to use the country’s [...]

Subscribers only Politics 02.11.2011

Ivory Coast
Warlords spend, spend, spend

The military chiefs of Ivory Coast’s former Forces Nouvelles rebel movement have been drawing attention to themselves by splurging cash on property and flashy cars.

Subscribers only Politics 21.09.2011

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Ouattara's French touch

Felix Houphouet-Boigny coined the term Françafrique, which he used positively to mean the close ties between France and its former colonies, and Ivory Coast's founding president always swore by his French advisors when making decisions and embarking on grand projects.

Subscribers only Politics 07.09.2011

Ivory Coast
Ouattara/Soro : from duo to duel

Three months after his inauguration as president of Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara appears to have little confidence in his Prime Minister, and vice versa.

Subscribers only Politics 20.07.2011

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Jeannot Ahoussou
Mathias Kakou
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Ivory Coast Ouattara nixes Soro's parliamentary plans

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Libya
From Tripoli to Benghazi, Turkish trader BGN's oil odyssey

Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Ivory Coast
Soro simmers down

Ivory Coast
Ouattara nixes Soro's parliamentary plans

Insiders | Ivory Coast
Guillaume Soro, from battle dress to business suit

Ivory Coast
Guillaume Soro’s media blitz

Ivory Coast
Kablan Duncan takes his time

Ivory Coast
Kablan rings no substantial changes

Burkina Faso
Soro settles soldiers’ pay

Ivory Coast
Ahoussou under palace control

Ivory Coast
Soro lands speaker’s job

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Ouattara and Soro’s security woes

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
French hold business reins

Ivory Coast
Soro swaps fatigues for suit and tie

Ivory Coast
Warlords spend, spend, spend

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Ouattara's French touch

Ivory Coast
Ouattara/Soro : from duo to duel