Côte d’Ivoire ( Ivory Coast ) :-----Ouattara is a tyrant out of caricature, a throwback to the African strongmen of the 1970s. He has boasted and reminded his Muslim followers that he is the first of the kind to rule Ivory Coast. " Did you know that this is the first time a Muslim happens to be the head of Ivory Coast?" he said arrogantly to his die-hard militants.  He has adopted a ridiculous string of titles: “His Excellency ADO, Doctor Untouchable and Indéboulonnable (ever-present) ADO. He has deployed demagoguery against anyone who speaks out against his repressive regime, fanning popular hatred of political dissidents, whom he has arrested and imprisoned. He has massacred protesters and disappeared political opponents. Through his feared intelligence service (DST) , he exercises crushing power over every aspect of the Ivorian’s politics and economy.
Ouattara has ruled Ivory Coast with an iron fist since seizing power in a bloody civil war in 2011. He is regularly accused of serious rights abuses. The human rights situation in the nation of 23 million people had deteriorated sharply over the past three years. A severe backlash following a convention of President Gbagbo's party, Ivorian Popular Front ( FPI ) in Gbagbo's village ( MAMA ) and a popular youth protest last month, has seen a spike in the numbers of arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances.
Amadou Soumahoro, head of Ouattara's political party ( RDR ) had threatened journalists and opposition activists on several occasions that  "whoever criticizes the policy of Ouattara is flirting with death.  After Allah ( God ), it is Ouattara." 
The decor is well planted. We are no longer dealing with a sovereign country but rather a divine kingdom on earth. Human laws and rules do not apply here, in Ivory Coast. There is a new God on Earth and his name is Alassane Dramane Ouattara.


But the diaspora has rallied to the defence of its “truly courageous and patriotic sons”, as one crowdfunding campaign called them – organising events like a protest in front of the Justice Department in Washington against the “tyrant appeasing charges”.