Spotlight IVORY COAST Issue dated 10/02/2016

Scales of justice out of kilter under Ouattara

While Alassane Ouattara is quick to praise the impartiality of the international justice system where Laurent Gbagbo's trial is concerned, the Ivorian president could not boast the same for his own country's courts. Special privileges for some, partiality, and protection [...] (605 words)

This article may be accessed by subscribers and e-wallet holders (USD 19.50)
Log in to read more

Subscribe to
Africa Intelligence
or
Pay-Per-Article

E-wallet
starting from 50USD

Subscribe or Pay-Per-Article

Discover our offers

Not reader yet?
Create an account to access our FREE SECTION

A free issue

A selection of articles

New editions' summaries

Keyword notifications to follow people or topics of interest to you

A free issue and a selection of free articles

Summaries and email notifications

On the same subject

IVORY COAST 13/07/2020

Charity begins at home for Covid-19 funds

The first payments from the funds set up to tackle the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic have gone to business leaders who support the the ruling party. [...]

IVORY COAST 29/05/2019

Hamed Bakayoko facing legal action in France?

Admiral Celestin N'Guessan, the commander of the Ivorian navy, is under pressure from the legal representatives of the lawyer Yaya [...]

IVORY COAST 13/03/2019

Agro West Africa eyes up cashew market

Agro West Africa, a firm founded and run by Zoumana [...]

AFRICA BELGIUM 05/09/2018

Arion to head the ICCO?

The former Belgian diplomat Michel Arion has been shortlisted to [...]

IVORY COAST 20/06/2018

Namory Karamoko moved to a new role in intelligence Free

Namory Karamoko has been appointed head of the Direction generale des renseignements (DRM), which is housed at the Ministry of [...]

IVORY COAST 07/02/2018

Charles Kader Goore's exile set to continue

The businessman Charles Kader Goore is still not permitted to return to Ivory Coast, despite the fact that there are [...]

BENIN IVORY COAST 07/02/2018

The CCJA sends Patrice Talon back to square one in the Hydrochem affair

The Ohada court of arbitration has called into question the entire transaction through which the Beninese president acquired a stake in Agro West Africa. [...]

IVORY COAST 20/12/2017

Vassiriki Konate relaunches the textile industry

The CEO of the Union industrielle textile de Cote d'Ivoire [...]

The presentation ceremony of the management plan of Cocody Bay (June, 2015). © maroc.ma

MOROCCO 09/11/2017

Royal Cocody Bay project is bogged down in Abidjan

The Cocody Bay development project in Abidjan, which symbolizes the closer relations being forged between Ivory Coast and Morocco, has [...]

IVORY COAST 25/10/2017

Charles Kader Goore remains persona non grata

Charles Kader Goore, who has been living abroad since the post-electoral crisis of 2011 (WAN 728), was refused permission by [...]

IVORY COAST 11/10/2017

Business leaders give Zoumana Bakayoko the cold shoulder

Zoumana Bakayoko, the CEO of Agro West Africa, which specialises in distributing fertilisers and crop protection products and exporting cocoa, [...]

IVORY COAST 26/07/2017

ICSID looks into the Cafe de Rome affair

The arbitration institution is due to decide whether it is competent to rule on the affair. [...]

IVORY COAST 19/04/2017

ARM stalled in tracks on Ivoire Golf Club

Restoration of the hotel is marking time, even though the project is supposedly a priority for tourism minister Siandou Fofana. [...]

MOROCCO IVORY COAST 15/03/2017

Mohammed VI pampers Ouattara’s armed forces

Moroccan king Mohammed VI didn’t turn up empty handed when [...]

IVORY COAST MALI 18/01/2017

Ado displays prudence

Alassane Ouattara, worried by the Jan. 6 mutiny in several [...]

IVORY COAST 14/12/2016

Hamed Bakayoko retains pro-Gbagbo administrators

On Nov. 30, Ivorian Interior and Security Minister Hamed Bakayoko raised with the appointments committee led by Prime Minister the [...]

IVORY COAST 30/11/2016

Supreme Court delivers setback to Hamed Bakayoko

After several long months of deliberation, the Supreme Court’s administrative [...]

IVORY COAST 16/11/2016

Banks put the squeeze on the CCC

Local banks want to get their hands on a 120 bn CFA franc stabilisation fund [...]

IVORY COAST 11/10/2016

Former Yamoussoukro aide builds up gold position

A one-time official in the governorship of Yamoussoukro is pushing ahead in gold ventures. [...]

IVORY COAST 07/09/2016

Zoumana Bakayoko to quit politics

Zoumana Bakayoko, who heads Agro West and Citrans, is not [...]

IVORY COAST 08/06/2016

Resort Co Invest picks fortier

The lawyers for businessman Stephane Citerici, boss of the firm [...]

IVORY COAST 20/04/2016

Boss of CKG Holdings re-establishes contact with Bakayoko

The president of the CKG Holding group who has bought [...]

Breaking news IVORY COAST 15/04/2016

How Charles Kader Gooré got to buy Racing Club de Lens

Ivorian businessman Charles Kader Gooré, head of holding company CKG, and one-time close associate of Laurent Gbagbo, has reached final [...]

IVORY COAST FRANCE 06/04/2016

Cafe de Rome complaint goes to ICSID

After several failed efforts to obtain an out-of-court settlement, lawyers [...]

IVORY COAST 23/03/2016

Youssouf Bakayoko loses case against Konate

An Ivorian court threw out Youssouf Bakayoko’s counterfeiting complaint against Vassiriki Konate on March 15. Bakayoko, the chairman of the [...]

IVORY COAST Document 24/02/2016

Philomene Adaye defends Bakayoko in property dispute

Youssouf Bakayoko, the chairman of Ivory Coast’s Independent Electoral Commission (CEI), has hired Ivorian lawyer Philomene Adaye to represent him [...]

Breaking news IVORY COAST Document 19/01/2016

Hamed Bakayoko’s top brass summoned by a French magistrate

The Ivorian judiciary, which until now has been little inclined to collaborate with its French counterpart, has decided to act [...]

Breaking news IVORY COAST 15/01/2016

Ouattara places his private office staff in the new government

The configuration of the new government presented on January 12 is little different from its predecessors except that Alassan Ouattara [...]

IVORY COAST 13/01/2016

New testimony revives Kieffer investigation

After a long period of inertia the investigation into the kidnapping and disappearance of French journalist Guy-Andre Kieffer is poised to get underway again. [...]

IVORY COAST 23/12/2015

Ouattara slow to clean up in own camp

Although he has pledged to take a clean broom to Ivory Coast’s institutions in his second term of office, Alassane Ouattara looks set to protect those closest to him. [...]

IVORY COAST 11/11/2015

US steps up Ouattara charm offensive Free

Tellingly, US officials were out in force at the inauguration of President Alassane Ouattara on November 3, while the French were notable by their absence. [...]

IVORY COAST 28/10/2015

Ouattara’s corruption clean-up campaign

Now that he has free rein after his re-election, Alassane [...]

Spotlight IVORY COAST 16/09/2015

Ouattara serenely lays re-election plans

In contrast with 2010, when post-electoral violence plunged Ivory Coast into chaos and Alassane Ouattara was kept waiting for the presidency, the elections on October 25 look set to be an easy ride for the incumbent. [...]

IVORY COAST 02/09/2015

Youssouf Bakayoko makes grab for Ivoire Cajou

The president of the Ivorian electoral commission is trying to take possession of land that Vassiriki Konate has built his Ivoire Cajou facility on in Seguela. [...]

Receive free prompts for these topics

IVORY COAST
Abidjan
Agro West Africa
Alassane Ouattara
Charles Kader Goore
Citerici
Co
Cyril Paquaux
Daniel Kablan Duncan
Daniele
Dominique Ouattara
Ernest Dali Zabo
Eurofind
Frantz di Rippel
Gauthier
Guedel
Guy-Andre Keiffer
Hamed Bakayoko
Henri Konan Bedie
ICSID
Invest
Jean-Chrysostome Blessy
Jean-Noel Loucou
Laurent Gbagbo
Marcel Gossio
Marchica Med
Mohammed VI
N'Diaye
Palazo
Philippe Nakad
Rene Sie
Resort
Roger Abinader
Stephane
Vassiriki Konate
Yara West Africa
Youssouf Bakayoko
Zoumana Bakayoko

Bolloré, TotalEnergies and Air France held hostage in Franco-Russian power struggle

How ICMPD, a champion of migrant 'assisted return', became an EU project manager

The Sahel threatened by a jihadist tornado

Cabo Delgado: a gas Eldorado and security nightmare

Brazzaville facing hefty arbitration over withdrawn iron ore permits