Côte d’Ivoire

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Premium badgeIn Côte d’Ivoire, leading fertiliser manufacturer Solevo faces tough competition

Already in competition with Yara, the historical number one on the Ivorian fertiliser market is now under pressure from an aggressive new operator, th...

cocoa

hidden agenda?

Premium badgeCôte d’Ivoire: A bitter season for the cocoa industry As the 2022-2023 intermediate marketing year gets underway in Côte d’Ivoire, both the volume of cocoa beans and harvest forecast continues to fall. Th...
© Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara at the Africa CEO Forum.

navigating crises

Alassane Ouattara, Aziz Akhannouch, Makhtar Diop… This year’s Africa CEO Forum 2023 live More than 1,800 economic and political decision-makers are gathering for the Africa CEO Forum 2023, today Monday, 5 June and Tuesday 6 June in Abidjan...
© Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara, April 27, 2023 in Abidjan. ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP

Long game

Premium badgeCôte d’Ivoire: President Ouattara impatient with Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré The Ivorian head of state wants to resume joint operations with Burkina Faso, but for now, Ouagadougou’s transitional president is using delaying tact...

Côte d’Ivoire top stories

into the fray

Premium badgeIn Côte d’Ivoire, leading fertiliser manufacturer Solevo faces tough competition Already in competition with Yara, the historical number one on the Ivorian fertiliser market is now under pressure from an aggressive new operator, th...
cocoa

hidden agenda?

Premium badgeCôte d’Ivoire: A bitter season for the cocoa industry As the 2022-2023 intermediate marketing year gets underway in Côte d’Ivoire, both the volume of cocoa beans and harvest forecast continues to fall. Th...
© Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara, April 27, 2023 in Abidjan. ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP

Long game

Premium badgeCôte d’Ivoire: President Ouattara impatient with Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré The Ivorian head of state wants to resume joint operations with Burkina Faso, but for now, Ouagadougou’s transitional president is using delaying tact...

Côte d’Ivoire top stories

into the fray

Premium badgeIn Côte d’Ivoire, leading fertiliser manufacturer Solevo faces tough competition Already in competition with Yara, the historical number one on the Ivorian fertiliser market is now under pressure from an aggressive new operator, th...
cocoa

hidden agenda?

Premium badgeCôte d’Ivoire: A bitter season for the cocoa industry As the 2022-2023 intermediate marketing year gets underway in Côte d’Ivoire, both the volume of cocoa beans and harvest forecast continues to fall. Th...
© Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara, April 27, 2023 in Abidjan. ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP

Long game

Premium badgeCôte d’Ivoire: President Ouattara impatient with Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré The Ivorian head of state wants to resume joint operations with Burkina Faso, but for now, Ouagadougou’s transitional president is using delaying tact...

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© Former Ivorian president and chairman of the PPA-CI, Laurent Gbagbo, during a ceremony in Yopougon, a popular district of Abidjan, on March 31, 2023. Sia Kambou / AFP

at loggerheads

Premium badgeCôte d’Ivoire: Laurent Gbagbo’s exclusion from electoral list raises controversy In Côte d’Ivoire, former president Laurent Gbagbo remains off the electoral list for the next local elections scheduled for September, a decision that...
© Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in White Plains, New York, on April 24, 2021. KENA BETANCUR/AFP

Premium badgeCocaine trafficking in Côte d’Ivoire of interest to US DEA The ongoing cocaine case in Côte d’Ivoire has resulted in arrests and incarcerations. Now, the US wants to play ball.
© Since 2018, Unilever Côte d’Ivoire’s turnover has been steadily declining. Unilever

tough times

Premium badgeUnilever falters in its French-speaking stronghold in Côte d’Ivoire With low barriers to entry, the Anglo-Dutch consumer giant is struggling to compete with local and international competitors in the region.

white lines

Premium badgeCôte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Nigeria… How cocaine is making its way through West Africa To meet booming demand in Europe, cocaine production has more than doubled in South America. West Africa, an almost obligatory transit point for the w...

top tech

Premium badgeNeobanks, mobile money… Africa’s future fintech leaders Among our 20 future tech champions, fintech start-ups are in the majority with six representatives. They offer neobanks, business management solutions...
© In Rwanda, Zipline aims to make nearly 2 million autonomous deliveries by 2029. Luke Dray/Getty Images via AFP

Continental expansion

Premium badgeZipline’s drones set to fly high in Africa on $330m funding Zipline, which has operations in five African countries, has once again hit the headlines by raising $330m, an amount the US start-up will be using to...