Ivory Coast,officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire,also known as Côte d'Ivoire,is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro,in the centre of the country,while its largest city and economic centre is the port city of Abidjan. It borders Guinea to the northwest,Liberia to the west,Mali to the northwest,Burkina Faso to the northeast,Ghana to the east,and the Gulf of Guinea to the south. Its official language is French,and indigenous languages are also widely used,including Bété,Baoulé,Dioula,Dan,Anyin,and Cebaara Senufo. In total,there are around 78 different languages spoken in Ivory Coast. The country has a religiously diverse population,including numerous followers of Islam,Christianity,and traditional faiths like Animism.
Koudou Laurent Gbagbo is an Ivorian politician who was the president of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 until his arrest in April 2011. A historian,Gbagbo was imprisoned in the early 1970s and again in the early 1990s,and he lived in exile in France during much of the 1980s as a result of his union activism. Gbagbo founded the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) in 1982 and ran unsuccessfully for president against Félix Houphouët-Boigny at the start of multi-party politics in 1990. He won a seat in the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire in 1990.
The Democratic Party of Ivory Coast –African Democratic Rally is a centre-right political party in Ivory Coast.
Félix Houphouët-Boigny,affectionately called Papa Houphouët or Le Vieux,was an Ivorian politician and physician who served as the first president of Ivory Coast,serving from 1960 until his death in 1993. A tribal chief,he worked as a medical aide,union leader,and planter before being elected to the French Parliament. He served in several ministerial positions within the French government before leading Ivory Coast following independence in 1960. Throughout his life,he played a significant role in politics and the decolonisation of Africa.
AiméHenri Konan Bédié was an Ivorian politician. He was President of Côte d'Ivoire from 1993 to 1999,and latterly President of the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast –African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RDA). Prior to becoming president,he was a member and president of the National Assembly of Ivory Coast. He unsuccessfully sought another term as president in the 2020 presidential election.
Alpha Oumar Konaré is a Malian politician,professor,historian and archaeologist,who served as President of Mali for two five-year terms from 1992 to 2002 and was Chairperson of the African Union Commission from 2003 to 2008.
The Rally of the Republicans is a liberal party in Ivory Coast. The party is the country's governing party;the party's leader,Alassane Ouattara,is the current President of Ivory Coast.
Alassane Dramane Ouattara is an Ivorian politician who has been President of Ivory Coast since 2010. An economist by profession,Ouattara worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Central Bank of West African States,and he was the Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from November 1990 to December 1993,appointed to that post by President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Ouattara became the President of the Rally of the Republicans (RDR),an Ivorian political party,in 1999.
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro is an Ivorian politician who was the Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from April 2007 to March 2012. Prior to his service as Prime Minister,Soro led the Patriotic Movement of Côte d'Ivoire,and later the New Forces as its Secretary-General. In March 2012,Soro became President of the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire. He stepped down from that position in February 2019,announcing in June 2019 that he is running to succeed President Alassane Ouattara.
The Patriotic Movement of Ivory Coast was the major rebel group in the Ivorian Civil War,which since 2005,has transformed itself into a leading political party.
AndréSalifou was a Nigerien politician,diplomat,and professor. He was president of the High Council of the Republic during the 1991–93 transitional period,briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1996,and was an unsuccessful presidential candidate in 1999.
Parliamentary elections were held in Ivory Coast on 11 December 2011,after the presidential elections in late 2010. They followed a peace agreement between the government and the New Forces that was signed in March 2007. The Rally of the Republicans,the party of President Alassane Ouattara,won just under half the seats in the National Assembly.
Mamadou Koulibaly is an Ivorian politician,Chairman of LIDER,a classical liberal political party he founded in July 2011. Previously,he was President of the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire from 2001 to 2011,Minister of the Budget in 2000 and Minister of Economy and Finance from 2000 to 2001. For years he was leading member of the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI),briefly leading the party in an interim capacity in 2011 before quitting it.
Innocent Kobena Anaky is an Ivorian politician and the President of the Movement of the Forces of the Future (MFA),an opposition party. He served in the government of Côte d'Ivoire as Minister of State for Transport from 2003 to 2006.
Hamed Bakayoko was an Ivorian politician who served as Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from 8 July 2020 until his death on 10 March 2021. He had previously served as the country's Minister of New Technologies,Information and Communication,Minister of the Interior and Minister of Defense.
This period in the history of Ivory Coast was affected by the end of the 33-year reign of Félix Houphouët-Boigny in 1993,as well as demographic change which had seen the Muslim population rise from 6% in 1922 to 38.6% in 1998,including a majority in the north of the country.
Events in the year 2021 in Ivory Coast.
Kandia Camara is an Ivorian teacher and politician who is the President of the Senate of Ivory Coast since 12 October 2023. She is the former minister of foreign affairs in the government of President Alassane Ouattara.
TénéBirahima Ouattara is an Ivorian politician who is currently the Minister of Defense of Ivory Coast. He has previously served as the country's Minister of Presidential Affairs and head of the national intelligence department. He is the brother of Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara.
Tiémoko Meyliet Koné is an Ivorian economist and politician. He has served as Vice-President of Ivory Coast since April 2022.
