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Alassane Ouattara's 2020 electoral manoeuvres

The Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara is preparing to amend the constitution to facilitate the presidential bid of his prime minister, Amadou Gon Coulibaly. [...] (369 words)

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IVORY COAST
Alassane Ouattara
Amadou Gon Coulibaly
Front populaire ivoirien
Guillaume Soro
Henri Konan Bedie
Laurent Gbagbo
Parti Democratique de Cote d'Ivoire
Rassemblement des Houphouetistes pour la Democratie et la Paix
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Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara officially nominated to stand for third term in Abidjan. © Reuters

IVORY COAST Diplomacy 21/08/2020

Amid growing tension, French MP Bruno Fuchs takes pulse of presidential poll

Bruno Fuchs, a Macronist member of France's parliament who has significant experience in Africa, travelled to Abidjan from 11 to 16 August to discuss the upcoming presidential election with several Ivorian politicians. [...]

French deputy Bruno Fuchs. © IP3 PRESS/MAXPPP

IVORY COAST Politics 09/06/2020

All eyes on Idemia as it revises voters list

French firm Idemia is due to start registering voters on 10 June before updating the electoral roll. Opposition parties and the international community will be watching closely. [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 26/05/2020

Henri Konan Bédié ready for PDCI coronation on 12 June

The PDCI will be convening on 12 June to officially name its presidential candidate and at 86 years old the former Ivorian president still feels fit for the job. [...]

Henri Konan Bédié in 2017. © Georges Ibrahim Tounkara (VOA)/CC

IVORY COAST Politics 18/12/2019

Electoral commission under pressure

The composition of the Commission électorale indépendante (CEI) for the [...]

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IVORY COAST Politics 18/12/2019

Bédié, Gbagbo, Ouattara… Spectre of 2010 hangs over 2020 presidential election

The aerial choreography over Ivory Coast promises to be interesting on 22 December. The A330 of the French president Emmanuel Macron is due to take off from Bouaké at the end of the day (WAN 813) and may well cross [. [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 23/10/2019

Weakened within the RHDP, Amadou Gon Coulibaly beefs up his PR

In the face of criticism, the current prime minister and probable RHDP presidential candidate wants a 4.0 image makeover. [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 09/10/2019

Alassane Ouattara wages a double campaign

Alassane Ouattara and his protégé Amadou Gon Coulibaly embarked on a series of rallies in late September as the 2020 election looms, but there is another, silent, campaign being waged at the treasury, the tax office and the electoral commission. [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 25/09/2019

A game of electoral bluff

With the presidential election less than a year off, Alassane Ouattara, Henri Konan Bedie, Laurent Gbagbo and Guillaume Soro are giving out mixed messages. [...]

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Alassane Ouattara sends Laurent Gbagbo's speech writer to Algiers

The 2020 presidential election campaign has got off to a good start. To deprive Laurent Gbagbo's Front populaire ivoirien (FPI) [...]

IVORY COAST Diplomacy 28/08/2019

Guillaume Soro in exile?

Guillaume Soro has no plans to return to Abidjan in [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 10/07/2019

Bedie, Soro and Gbagbo gear up for talks over 2020

Henri Konan Bedie is seeking to form a united front with Laurent Gbagbo and Guillaume Soro for the presidential election of October 2020. An initiative that the Ivorian presidency is trying to torpedo. [...]

Amadou Gon Coulibaly (left), Alassane Ouattara's (right) heir apparent in 2020's presidential run. © Reuters

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IVORY COAST Politics 30/04/2019

Who can stop Amadou Gon Coulibaly in 2020?

Though in public he is still maintaining the suspense over whether he will run again for president in 2020, Alassane Ouattara is freely admitting in private that he ultimately wants his longstanding ally and current prime minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly [. [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 22/01/2019

Alassane Ouattara to run for a third term against Bedie

After having sworn that he wanted to hand over to the new generation, Alassane Ouattara has changed his mind as [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 07/03/2018

Alassane Ouattara forges ahead alone towards 2020

Isolated in his ivory tower, the Ivorian president wants to head off any potential challengers to his continuing rule. Analysis. [...]

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IVORY COAST Politics 26/07/2017

Ouattara stokes hostilities between Soro and Bakayoko with 2020 in mind

By appointing Hamed Bakayoko as minister of defence in the government reshuffle of 19 July, Alassane Ouattara has ratcheted up the tensions and divisions between his two putative heirs apparent, at the risk of sparking a political crisis. [...]

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IVORY COAST Politics 30/11/2016

Who will stop the all- powerful King Ouattara?

Alassane Ouattara has shown himself to be a master of political machinations. If politics were football, he would surely win a prize for best dribbler at the 2017 African Nations Cup in Gabon. Having contributed to the implosion of Laurent [. [...]

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IVORY COAST Politics 21/11/2012

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. [...]

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IVORY COAST Politics 30/05/2012

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 [. [...]

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IVORY COAST Politics 08/12/2010

Beseiged Gbagbo digs in

"One doesn’t organise an election to lose". Omar Bongo ’s famous adage must have gone through Laurent Gbagbo ‘s mind as he planned his inauguration after the November 28 run-off in the CFA 200 billion ($ 400 milllion) presidential election. [...]

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