Ivory Coast's incumbent President Alassane Ouattara was sworn in on Monday for a fourth term after taking over 89% of the vote in an October election marked by low turnout and unrest.

On 7 August, the presence of Laurent Gbagbo and Henri Konan Bédié alongside Alassane Ouattara in Yamousoukro for the celebration of the anniversary of Côte d’Ivoire’s independence was supposed to seal ...

Ouattara’s fourth term exposes how constitutional changes and silenced opposition are hollowing out democracy in Africa.

Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara attends a news conference at the presidential palace in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, March 15, 2016. REUTERS/Luc Gnago ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast President ...

Once again, the man who calls himself a guarantor of stability is in charge of the world’s top cocoa producer, Ivory Coast. When Ivorians went to the polls on Saturday, few doubted the outcome. By ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara was reelected to a fourth term in an election marked by low turnout and empty streets in the economic capital of Abidjan, ...

Côte d’Ivoire’s 79-year-old President Alassane Ouattara (ADO) was forced to change after experiencing the sudden loss of Amadou Gon Coulibaly (AGC) in July 2020 and then Hamed Bakayoko in March 2021.

On Monday, one day before Ivory Coast celebrated 58 years of independence, the West African country's leader announced that he is granting liberty of another kind to hundreds of Ivorians. In a ...

On November 9, a group of men gathered in a dusty town in southern Ivory Coast that sits at the junction of two major highways. The group walked onto the road to block traffic to protest the ...

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has been sworn in for a fourth term following a landslide victory in October ...

Abidjan: President Alassane Ouattara, 83, was on Monday sworn in for a fourth term as leader of Ivory Coast, after elections in which his two main opponents were excluded from the ballot. Ouattara was ...