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In the CFA franc zones, Côte d’Ivoire has the highest minimum wage (Photo: AFP).

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While an increase in the monthly minimum wage is a popular promise for African politicians, wage trends are marked by regional disparities.

Centamin is exploring 300,000ha in Egypt’s Eastern Desert. (REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

‘absolute dream’

Premium badgeCentamin eyes new gold mine in Egypt after Burkina Faso exit: Martin Horgan The Canadian miner’s CEO says the company aims to retain its Sukari joint venture with the government and later develop a new mine that it fully owns ...
Fatoumata Sanogo, the new head of Cote d’Ivoire’s national oil company

Changing guard

Premium badgeCôte d’Ivoire taps first woman to lead Petroci oil group Petroleum engineer Fatoumata Sanogo will first have to clean up the state-owned company plagued by the missing butane gas scandal.
jad20230724-eco-civ-usine-gcb-1256×628-1690276377 © The GCB Côte d’Ivoire plant, inaugurated on 21 July, has 314 employees, 80% of whom are Ivorians. Twitter Tiémoko Meyliet Koné

bite back

Premium badgeMalaysia’s GCB shakes up competition for Côte d’Ivoire cocoa Malaysian company Guan Chong Berhad has inaugurated a cocoa bean grinding plant in San Pedro, in the west of Côte d’Ivoire. Its production capacity is...

Côte d’Ivoire top stories

In the CFA franc zones, Côte d’Ivoire has the highest minimum wage (Photo: AFP).

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Premium badgeWhich African countries have the highest minimum wage? While an increase in the monthly minimum wage is a popular promise for African politicians, wage trends are marked by regional disparities.
Centamin is exploring 300,000ha in Egypt’s Eastern Desert. (REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

‘absolute dream’

Premium badgeCentamin eyes new gold mine in Egypt after Burkina Faso exit: Martin Horgan The Canadian miner’s CEO says the company aims to retain its Sukari joint venture with the government and later develop a new mine that it fully owns ...
Fatoumata Sanogo, the new head of Cote d’Ivoire’s national oil company

Changing guard

Premium badgeCôte d’Ivoire taps first woman to lead Petroci oil group Petroleum engineer Fatoumata Sanogo will first have to clean up the state-owned company plagued by the missing butane gas scandal.

Côte d’Ivoire top stories

In the CFA franc zones, Côte d’Ivoire has the highest minimum wage (Photo: AFP).

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Premium badgeWhich African countries have the highest minimum wage? While an increase in the monthly minimum wage is a popular promise for African politicians, wage trends are marked by regional disparities.
Centamin is exploring 300,000ha in Egypt’s Eastern Desert. (REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

‘absolute dream’

Premium badgeCentamin eyes new gold mine in Egypt after Burkina Faso exit: Martin Horgan The Canadian miner’s CEO says the company aims to retain its Sukari joint venture with the government and later develop a new mine that it fully owns ...
Fatoumata Sanogo, the new head of Cote d’Ivoire’s national oil company

Changing guard

Premium badgeCôte d’Ivoire taps first woman to lead Petroci oil group Petroleum engineer Fatoumata Sanogo will first have to clean up the state-owned company plagued by the missing butane gas scandal.

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French company Cemoi’s chocolate factory in Abidjan (AFP/Issouf Sanogo).

unprecedented rise

Premium badgeWhy cocoa prices are soaring with no benefit for Africa The anticipated drop in yields for the 2023/2024 season is pushing up the price of cocoa, but producing countries are unlikely to benefit.
Former Ivorian president and PDCI leader Henri Konan Bédié on 31 December, 2020, in Abidjan. (AFP/Sia Kambou)

end of an era

Côte d’Ivoire: Former President Henri Konan Bédié has died The former head of state and president of the Democratic Party of Côte d’Ivoire died on Tuesday, 1 August. He was 89 years old.
Mota Engil is extending the Bouaké Stadium in Côte d’Ivoire for the Africa Cup of Nations.

vigorous activity

Premium badgeGuinea, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Nigeria: No crisis for Mota Engil Portugal’s prominent infrastructure manufacturer has been diligently constructing concessions across West Africa.
Abbas Badreddine

bad boy

Premium badgeLebanese passport scandal: Who is Abbas Badreddine? The successful entrepreneur is one of several Ivorian-Lebanese businessmen suspected of fraudulently acquiring nationality in Côte d’Ivoire.
© The headquarters of mobile telecommunications operator MTN is seen in Plateau, Abidjan, Ivory coast December 17, 2015. REUTERS/ Thierry Gouegnon

mature market?

Premium badgeOrange, MTN, Moov: 5 things about Côte d’Ivoire’s telecoms crisis For several quarters, Orange, MTN, and Moov have seen revenues stagnate – or even fall – while Côte d’Ivoire continues to enjoy steady GDP growth. ...
Police Côte d’Ivoire

DRAGNET

Premium badgeCôte d’Ivoire: Prominent Lebanese CEO in passport scandal The head of a company promoted by the Ivorian government is among a group of Lebanese businessmen in custody, accused of passport fraud.