Tag: Alassane Ouattara
Ivory Coast sentences former PM Soro to life imprisonment for plotting...
An Ivory Coast court on Wednesday sentenced former prime minister and rebel leader Guillaume Soro in absentia to life in prison on charges of...
Gbagbo “free to return” to Ivory Coast following acquittal, president says
Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and one of his close allies have permission to return home following their acquittal on charges of crimes...
Ivory Coast’s President Ouattara keeps brother as defence minister
Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has confirmed his younger brother Tene Birahima Ouattara as minister of defence, part of a slate of new appointments...
Ex-rebel calls on Ivory Coast army to mutiny, join opposition
An influential ex-rebel leader told Ivory Coast’s army to mutiny on Wednesday and back a rival breakaway government in the wake of a contested...
Ivory Coast president scores landslide win, opposition cries foul
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has provisionally won a third term in office with 94.27% of the vote, the electoral commission announced early on...
ISS: Côte d’Ivoire should learn lessons from past election crises
A failure to link current and past electoral problems is leading the country down a democratic dead end.
The crisis in Côte d’Ivoire has considerably...
Six killed in Ivory Coast town ahead of presidential election
At least six people have been killed in a port town in southern Ivory Coast this week, the mayor said on Thursday, as supporters...
Guinea President Conde wins re-election in landslide: preliminary results
Guinea’s President Alpha Conde has won a landslide re-election victory, preliminary results showed on Thursday, giving him a third term in office after a...
Guinean President Conde ahead of rivals in election
Guinea’s octogenarian leader, Alpha Conde, won four constituencies in the West African nation’s presidential vote, preliminary results announced by the election commission showed on...
One killed as pre-election protests spread in Ivory Coast
One person was killed and several injured when security forces opened fire on protesters in the southeast of Ivory coast on Monday, several witnesses...
Guinea votes on third term for Conde amid voter-card concerns
Polls closed and counting began in Guinea on Sunday evening following a largely peaceful day in which voters decided whether to give 82-year-old President...
Ivory Coast president’s supporters and opponents clash ahead of election
Local offices of Ivory Coast’s ruling party were ransacked and the house of an opponent of President Alassane Ouattara was set on fire, as...
Three killed in Ivory Coast protests against president’s third term bid
At least three people died during protests in Ivory Coast on Thursday, police said, as small groups burned makeshift road blocks in protests against...
Ivory Coast’s Ouattara acts to draft new constitution
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has taken a step towards drawing up a new constitution and scrapping a nationality clause which helped...
Al Qaeda attack will not derail Ivory Coast revival: president
President Alassane Ouattara vowed on Wednesday that an al Qaeda-claimed attack on an Ivory Coast beach resort that killed 19 people would...
ICC says ‘intensified’ probe into Ivory Coast’s president’s supporters
The International Criminal Court's prosecutors have intensified their investigations into supporters of Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara, chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said...
Second term for Ivory Coast’s Ouattara
Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara won a blowout poll victory and a second five-year term in a weekend vote intended to draw...
Protests continue over Ivory Coast president’s re-election bid
A second day of violent protests broke out in at least two towns in Ivory Coast on Friday over incumbent President Alassane...
Ivory Coast’s former rebels weigh politics and guns
Few Ivorian officials and diplomats expect major violence before a presidential election in October.
President Alassane Ouattara has the backing of his main...
Thousands pack the streets as Ivory Coast’s Ouattara returns home
Thousands of Ivorians flooded the streets on Sunday to welcome back President Alassane Ouattara after a month of medical treatment in France...
Abidjan prison reopens after jail break
Ivory Coast reopened Abidjan's main prison and promised to improve notoriously poor conditions there, almost five months after insurgents freed its more...
Ouattara makes Ivory Coast cabinet sign anti-graft pledge
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara told his ministers to sign a code of ethics aimed at stamping out corruption and nepotism that...
