Alassane Ouattara

Alassane Dramane Ouattara ( Dimbokro January 1 1942 ) is an Ivorian politician and current president of Ivory Coast . Alassane since 1999 president of his Liberal party RDR (Rassemblement des Républicains) which especially enjoys strong support in the north of the country. From November 1990 until December 1993 he was prime minister under then President Félix Houphouët-Boigny . Besides politician he is also an economist and worked in that capacity for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO). ==Presidential Elections 2010 [  edit ] == In 2000, Ouattara became a candidate for president, but he was not admitted to the elections. He was not 100% Ivorian descent, a requirement of the law. This exclusion was one of the causes of the civil war that broke out in 2002 between the Muslim north and the Christian south of Ivory Coast.

Both Ouattara and his opponent Laurent Gbagbo claim since the presidential elections of November 2010 to be the democratically elected President. International organizations like the United Nations and the African Union have rallied in this dispute on the side of Ouattara. Gbagbo was arrested on April 11, 2011 and shortly thereafter transferred to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Not only the forces of Gbagbo but also those of Ouattara were accused of atrocities during the civil war. That did not stop after the defeat of Gbagbo. Itinerant supporters of the former president but also the government forces of Ouattara remain grossly violate human rights. Amnesty International accused in February 2013 the armed forces of extrajudicial killings, assassinations and arrests on political grounds.