Tag: Ouattara
Ivory Coast opposition leader Affi released 2 months after election-spat arrest
Ivory Coast opposition leader Pascal Affi N’Guessan was released on Wednesday after nearly two months in custody for creating a breakaway government after a...
Ivory Coast gives passport to exiled former president Gbagbo
Ivory Coast has issued passports to former president Laurent Gbagbo, allowing him to return from exile in Belgium before the end of the year...
Ivory Coast former president Gbagbo breaks silence to warn of election...
Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo warned on Thursday the West African nation faced a catastrophe if candidates in Saturday’s presidential election do not...
ISS: Côte d’Ivoire and the ‘third-term’ virus
Developments over recent months in Côte d’Ivoire point to a likely rise in tensions around the presidential polls scheduled for 31 October. Events in early August...
Concern over Ivory Coast political rift
After more than a decade as allies, two of Ivory Coast's largest political parties face off in local elections after an acrimonious...
New Ivory Coast cabinet named
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara named a new, slightly smaller government on Wednesday, though there were few changes in major positions, according...
Ivorians vote in parliamentary election
Ivorians voted in a parliamentary election which is expected to see the ruling coalition of President Alassane Ouattara strengthen its rule in...
Ouattara says no “victors’ justice” in Ivory Coast
Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara rejected accusations that he had imposed "victors' justice" on his civil war rival by transferring him to the...
Donors seek urgent Ivory Coast security reform: source
Major donors to Ivory Coast are in talks with President Alassane Ouattara to urge him to draft a plan for badly needed...
Ouattara urges Ghana to arrest Ivorian suspects
Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara urged Ghana to arrest and hand over Ivorians indicted for war crimes and other abuses during four...
Ivory Coast’s Ouattara sets up inquiry into war crimes
Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara signed a decree establishing a commission of inquiry into crimes committed during the country's violent post-election turmoil,...