Profile: Alassane Outtara, Ivory Coast President

Profile: Alassane Outtara, Ivory Coast President

Alassane Ouattara has an economic rather than a political background.

He is a former senior official at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He has led Ivory Coast, the world’s largest cocoa producing country to a revival after a 2011 civil war. That has made the country a magnet for investment as weaker African economies crumbled amid a global commodities crash.

According to the IMF, Ivory Coast is scheduled to expand as much as nine percent this year because of the country’s investment b…
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