Dominique Ouattara

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Dominique Ouattara (* 16th December 1953 as Dominique Nouvian in Constantine , Algeria ), widowed Dominique Folloroux , is a French-Ivorian entrepreneur. The wife of Alassane Ouattara , President of Ivory Coast , has been the Ivory Coast première since 2010 .

Life

Dominique Outtara was born in Algeria, then France, as the daughter of a French pied noir family. Statements that she is of Jewish - Sephardic descent are unsubstantiated, but are circulated in blogs and commentaries and have occasionally been adopted by tabloids . In Dominique Outtara's official blog, however, the claim is referred to as a "false rumor".

In 1973 she married a French teacher with whom she went to Ivory Coast in 1975. He died in 1983. She has two children from the marriage. After working for the local United Nations office , she ran a rapidly growing administration and real estate company, the l'AICI group, first in Africa and later also in France, and became a wealthy real estate agent . In the 1980s she became a close confidante of the first President of the Ivory Coast Félix Houphouët-Boigny , whose business and real estate she managed, as well as that of the corrupt Gabonese President Omar Bongo . Her opponents saw in her a mistress , a femme fatale or a Madame de Pompadour .

In the mid-1980s, she met Alassane Ouattara, then director of the IMF in Washington, DC , in Abidjan. In 1991, when Alassane Ouattara was Prime Minister of the Ivory Coast, they married in Paris. Contrary to newspaper reports to the contrary, the marriage was not concluded by Nicolas Sarkozy . She is said to have had a significant impact on her husband's political career.

The practicing Catholic founded the “Fondation Children of Africa” foundation in 1998, which cares for disadvantaged children in ten African countries.

In 2000, two uniformed men tried to kidnap Dominique Ouattara. In 2002, when the Ivorian civil war between the Christian south and the Muslim north began and their villa was set on fire, the couple went into French exile for three years.

Officially première dame since the end of 2010, Dominique Ouattara is still active in the real estate business and continues to sell the make-up line of Jacques Dessange in the USA.

Awards

  • 2000: "Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World"

See also

Web links

Commons : Dominique Ouattara  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Victor Fingal: Dominique Ouattara, une femme fatale au palais In: Le Matin of April 12, 2011 (accessed on May 17, 2011).
  2. ↑ This is Ivory Coast's new First Lady. Report v. May 16, 2011 at bild.de (accessed on May 17, 2011).
  3. ↑ Dominique Ouattara, l'atout Coeur. Entry v. May 5, 2011 (accessed May 17, 2011).
  4. ↑ a b c Damien Glez: Dominique Ouattara, première dame d'affaires. on lefaso.net , April 15, 2011 (accessed May 17, 2011).
  5. ^ A b Dominique Ouattara, amie de la jet-set et des affaires. In: L'Alsace v. April 13, 2011 (accessed May 17, 2011).
  6. ↑ a b c Bruno Fanucchi: La revanche des Ouattara . In: Le Parisien, April 17, 2011 (accessed May 17, 2011).
  7. ↑ Israël Yoroba Guebo: Dominique Ouattara, l'inconditionnel soutien In: TV5 Monde of January 10, 2011 (accessed on May 17, 2011).
  8. ↑ a b Christine Longin: A businesswoman moves into the presidential palace In: Die Welt from April 21, 2011 (accessed on May 17, 2011).
personal data
SURNAME Ouattara, Dominique
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nouvian, Dominique; Folloroux, Dominique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Ivorian entrepreneur and wife of the Ivorian President
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantine (Algeria)