Alassane Ouattara - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alassane Ouattara | |
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5th President of the Ivory Coast | |
Assumed office 4 December 2010 | |
Prime Minister | Guillaume Soro Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio Daniel Kablan Duncan Amadou Gon Coulibaly Hamed Bakayoko Patrick Achi |
Vice President | Daniel Kablan Duncan (Interim) |
Preceded by | Laurent Gbagbo |
Prime Minister of the Ivory Coast | |
In office 7 November 1990 – 9 December 1993 | |
President | Félix Houphouët-Boigny |
Preceded by | Félix Houphouët-Boigny |
Succeeded by | Daniel Kablan Duncan |
Personal details | |
Born | Dimbokro, French West Africa (present-day Côte d'Ivoire) | 1 January 1942
Political party | Democratic Party (Before 1994) Rally of the Republicans (1994–present) |
Spouse(s) | Dominique Nouvian (1991–present) |
Alma mater | Drexel University University of Pennsylvania |
Religion | Islam |
Website | Official Presidential website |
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Alassane Ouattara (born 1 January 1942) is an Ivoirian politician. He became President of Côte d'Ivoire in 2011. He is an economist, Ouattara worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF).[1] He was the Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from November 1990 to December 1993.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Ivory Coast's Alassane Ouattara in profile" Archived 2011-04-04 at the Wayback Machine, BBC News Online, 11 April 2011.
Other websites
[change | change source]Media related to Alassane Ouattara at Wikimedia Commons (in French) Alassane Ouattara.com Archived 2005-02-06 at the Wayback Machine Political Web site from Ouattara's circle of influence.