Cote d’Ivoire

On Friday, July 29, 2011 President Barack Obama will meet Mr. Allassane Ouattara at the White House.

When the first round of Ivorian presidential elections left a tie between the outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo, a candidate to his own succession, and Alassane Ouattara, who for a long time had had doubts surrounding his nationality, to the delight of many, an air of profound tension or even fea

‘Without Africa, France will have no history in the 21st century.’
French President François Mitterand, March 1998