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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. [...]

Published on 03/04/2013 at 23:01 GMT

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Alassane Ouattara
Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
Facebook
Forces nouvelles
Guillaume Soro
Hachette
High Authority for Audiovisual Communication
Ibrahima Sy Savane
La Chaine Politique
Twitter
Yves Zogbo Jr

Ivory Coast
Massere Toure raps her pupil’s knuckles

Head of communications at the presidential palace in Abidjan and niece of president Alassane Ouattara, Massere Toure has raised her [...]

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Ivory Coast
Ouattara’s would-be heirs limber up

Although president Alassane Ouattara’s succession isn’t on the agenda his would-be heirs are already jockeying for position on the social media.

Subscribers only Politics 06.07.2016

Ivory Coast
Guillaume Soro shut out of palace

Although he has been much in the public eye on tours in Ivory Coast and abroad, the speaker of the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 14.05.2014

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.

Subscribers only 18.06.2013

Ivory Coast
Deadly stampede’s political fall-out

The political rivalry between Ivory Coast’s Interior and Security Minister Hamed Bakayoko, and parliamentary speaker Guillaume Soro has degenerated in [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.01.2013

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Ouattara caught in the middle

Even if Alassane Ouattara did warn Henri Konan Bedie on November 13 that he wanted to dissolve Prime Minister Jeannot Ahoussou’s government, the speed and the scope of the move which became public the next day took many by surprise.

Subscribers only Politics 21.11.2012

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Political parties struggle with change

Since the death of President Felix Houphouet-Boigny in 1993, the balance of power between Ivory Coast’s political parties has shifted. However President Alassane Ouattara’s Rassemblement des Republicains (RDR), the Parti Democratique de Cote d’Ivoire (PDCI), which was Ivory Coast’s sole [.

Subscribers only Politics 30.05.2012

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

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.

Subscribers only Politics 15.02.2012

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French investigation sends tremors through Abidjan's political class

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

Ivory Coast
Guillaume Soro’s media blitz

Ivory Coast
Massere Toure raps her pupil’s knuckles

Ivory Coast
Ouattara’s would-be heirs limber up

Ivory Coast
Guillaume Soro shut out of palace

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

Ivory Coast
Deadly stampede’s political fall-out

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Ouattara caught in the middle

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Political parties struggle with change

Ivory Coast
Soro lands speaker’s job

Ivory Coast
Soro simmers down