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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 [...] (712 words)

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IVORY COAST
Adama Bictogo
Affoussiata Bamba-Lamine
Alassane Ouattara
Amadou Gon Coulibaly
Emmanuel Macron
Félix Houphouet-Boigny
Front populaire ivoirien
Générations et peuples solidaires
Henri Konan Bédié
Laurent Gbagbo
Parti démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire
Rassemblement des houphouëtistes pour la démocratie et la paix

Talks heat up ahead of government reshuffle

Abidjan is abuzz with talk as Alassane Ouattara prepares his new cabinet, which could spell RHDP executive director Adama Bictogo's great comeback. [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 24/11/2020

Ouattara still master of negotiations with opposition

For the past 15 days the Ivorian president has been in talks with the opposition and after his phone call with Henri Konan Bédié this weekend believes he is the man with the shoulders to carry the negotiations through to the end, mostly likely early next year. [...]

Alassane Ouattara (right) and Henri Konan Bédiémet on 11 November 2020. © LEGNAN KOULA/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

IVORY COAST Politics 20/11/2020

Ouattara plays stick and carrot with Gbagbo's passport

The issue of a diplomatic passport to Laurent Gbagbo keeps being delayed, while the Ouattara administration seeks assurances that the former president will not sow political discord upon his return. [...]

Former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo. © Peter Dejong/Pool/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

IVORY COAST Politics 27/10/2020

Pascal Affi N'Guessan becomes central player in presidential election race

In less than a month, Pascal Affi N'Guessan has risen to join aging 86-year-old Henri Konan Bédié and become the opposition's figurehead against Alassane Ouattara. [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 23/10/2020

Ouattara manoeuvres to avoid election boycott

Running for re-election, President Alassane Ouattara has been dangling state campaign subsidies in front of his rivals and bringing pressure to bear from neighbouring states to persuade opponents such as Henri Konan Bédié to take part in the election. [...]

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara is running for re-election. But his opponents look like boycotting the ballot. © Luc Gnago/Reuters

IVORY COAST Diplomacy 06/10/2020

Ouattara's bid for third term deepens his diplomatic isolation

The Ivorian president's unshakable determination to run for re-election on 31 October is increasingly irking the international community. At the same time, several West African states are unhappy over the treatment of the former head of state Laurent Gbagbo. [...]

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara is determined to run for a third term. © Reuters/FW1F/Alison Williams

IVORY COAST Politics 02/10/2020

Alassane II pushing for Ouattara III

Determined to run for president on 31 October, Alassane Ouattara has already been dishing out ministry portfolios for his future third term. [...]

Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara. © Eric Gaillard/POOL/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

IVORY COAST Politics 15/09/2020

Presidential election: Adama Bictogo, the real driver of Alassane Ouattara's campaign

While the role of Alassane Ouattara's presidential campaign manager should be officially awarded to Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko, behind the scenes it is the executive director of the presidential party, Adama Bictogo, who will be behind the steering wheel. [...]

Adama Bictogo, RHDP executive director. © MaxPPP

IVORY COAST Politics 10/09/2020

Presidential election: Ouattara bolsters his Praetorian Guard

The country is on high alert as the election approaches, prompting the Ivorian president to bring his elite units to the fore. [...]

Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara © LEGNAN KOULA/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

IVORY COAST Politics 02/09/2020

Presidential elections: Ouattara puts his money on a high abstention level

The presidential coalition is forecasting that its champion, Alassane Ouattara, will win the elections in the first round with a score of 65%. It is counting on high abstention levels in regions traditionally loyal to Laurent Gbagbo [. [...]

Alassane Ouattara after submitting the application for October presidential election, 24 August 2020. © REUTERS/Luc Gnago

IVORY COAST Politics 25/08/2020

Presidential elections: the spin doctors stirring a media war

With just three months to go to the elections, a bevy of communications firms are busying themselves around the candidates. [...]

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 UNITED STATES Business 09/07/2020

Yohannes Mekbebe to take over helm of US chamber of commerce

The American-Ethiopian businessman and Yeshi MD Yohannes Mekbebe will take over the presidency of the US chamber of commerce in Abidjan this summer, replacing Gnalhey. [...]

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 20/04/2020

Marc Gentilini, Alassane Ouattara's discreet Covid-19 advisor

Marc Gentilini, a French doctor and former Red Cross president who has known the presidential couple for over a decade, has quietly been advising Alassane Ouattara since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis. [...]

IVORY COAST Business 01/04/2020

Algest to resurrect Conseil de l'Entente with new headquarters

Founded in 1959 by the ex-Ivorian president Félix Houphouët-Boigny, the [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 01/04/2020

Political allies desert Alassane Ouattara over his backing for Amadou Gon Coulibaly

After Henri Konan Bédié and Guillaume Soro, Marcel Amon Tanoh, who resigned on 19 March, has become the latest in a long line of former Ouattara allies who have opted to sever ties with the president. [...]

AFRICA Politics 01/04/2020

Covid-19 - a political tsunami for the leaders of francophone Africa?

As African governments take emergency measures to combat the pandemic, several west African leaders find themselves in the firing line of public opinion. [...]

IVORY COAST Diplomacy 19/02/2020

Marcel Amon Tanoh in firing line of Alassane Ouattara

The Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara may be poised to sack [...]

AFRICA 05/02/2020

Guess what of February 5, 2020 Free

Visit | Diplomatic passport | Rapprochement | Jet Gulfstream [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 05/02/2020

Amadou Gon Coulibaly gets his presidential campaign up and running

Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, who is bidding to succeed Alassane Ouattara, has set up a core campaign team and has made peace with those who are sceptical about his presidential credentials. [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 05/02/2020

Sarkozy plays hard to get with Guillaume Soro

Very critical of Emmanuel Macron, the former speaker of the [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 22/01/2020

Inza Fofana becomes Ouattara's go-to man for security

In recent months, the Unité de lutte contre le grande banditisme (ULGB) commanded by Colonel Inza Fofana, which is based [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 22/01/2020

Laurent Gbagbo strives to get FPI battle-ready

In the run-up to October's presidential election, the former president [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 22/01/2020

Alassane Ouattara attempts to silence anti-Gon lobby

As the potential candidacy of Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly in the presidential election continues to divide the RHDP, Alassane Ouattara is backing his protégé to the hilt. [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 08/01/2020

The secret history of the Guillaume Soro recording

Navigating through the cloud of PR coming out of the two camps, the West Africa Newsletter has managed to reconstruct when, how and why the recording that led to an arrest warrant against Guillaume Soro was made. [...]

IVORY COAST Politics 18/12/2019

Electoral commission under pressure

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

IVORY COAST Politics 06/11/2019

Guillaume Soro aspires to be leader of united opposition

The former speaker of parliament Guillaume Soro is seeking to rally an anti-Ouattara front behind him for his presidential bid. [...]

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 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. [...]

Breaking newsIVORY COAST 13/09/2019

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 Politics 28/08/2019

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. [...]

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. [...]

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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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Adama Bictogo
Affoussiata Bamba-Lamine
Alassane Ouattara
Amadou Gon Coulibaly
Emmanuel Macron
Félix Houphouet-Boigny
Front populaire ivoirien
Générations et peuples solidaires
Henri Konan Bédié
Laurent Gbagbo
Parti démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire
Rassemblement des houphouëtistes pour la démocratie et la paix

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Talks heat up ahead of government reshuffle

Ouattara still master of negotiations with opposition

Ouattara plays stick and carrot with Gbagbo's passport

Pascal Affi N'Guessan becomes central player in presidential election race

Ouattara manoeuvres to avoid election boycott

Ouattara's bid for third term deepens his diplomatic isolation

Alassane II pushing for Ouattara III

Presidential election: Adama Bictogo, the real driver of Alassane Ouattara's campaign

Presidential election: Ouattara bolsters his Praetorian Guard

Presidential elections: Ouattara puts his money on a high abstention level

Presidential elections: the spin doctors stirring a media war

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

Yohannes Mekbebe to take over helm of US chamber of commerce

All eyes on Idemia as it revises voters list

Henri Konan Bédié ready for PDCI coronation on 12 June

Marc Gentilini, Alassane Ouattara's discreet Covid-19 advisor

Algest to resurrect Conseil de l'Entente with new headquarters

Political allies desert Alassane Ouattara over his backing for Amadou Gon Coulibaly

Covid-19 - a political tsunami for the leaders of francophone Africa?

Marcel Amon Tanoh in firing line of Alassane Ouattara

Guess what of February 5, 2020 Free

Amadou Gon Coulibaly gets his presidential campaign up and running

Sarkozy plays hard to get with Guillaume Soro

Inza Fofana becomes Ouattara's go-to man for security

Laurent Gbagbo strives to get FPI battle-ready

Alassane Ouattara attempts to silence anti-Gon lobby

The secret history of the Guillaume Soro recording

Electoral commission under pressure

Guillaume Soro aspires to be leader of united opposition

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

A game of electoral bluff

Alassane Ouattara sends Laurent Gbagbo's speech writer to Algiers

Alassane Ouattara's 2020 electoral manoeuvres

Bedie, Soro and Gbagbo gear up for talks over 2020

Political parties struggle with change

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