54 result(s) for “CFA”
A financing agreement was signed between Ivory Coast and the Chinese group Energy China for the construction of a combined cycle thermal power plant in Songon, on June 2, 2026. With a capacity of 372 MW, this project with a total investment of 423.166 billion FCFA aims to meet the growing demand for electricity linked...
The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) and Afriland First Bank Côte d'Ivoire SA recently sealed a loan agreement of 10 billion CFA francs in Lomé. This credit line targets Ivorian micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), with the ambition of accelerating the country's economic transformation in...
As part of the West African Coastal Management Program (WACA), the Minister of the Environment and Ecological Transition, Abou Bamba, recently made the official handover of cutting-edge scientific equipment worth more than 110 million CFA francs to the Félix Houphouët-Boigny University of Cocody. A strategic endowment...
From May 13 to 16, 2026, the Project Coordination Unit (CCP) of the Industrial Infrastructure Management and Development Company (SOGEDI) carried out a supervision mission on the 70-hectare plot being developed in the industrial zone (ZI) of Yamoussoukro. A key step in the realization of an ambitious project for the Iv...
By financing scientific research since 2018, the Fund for Science, Technology and Innovation has established itself as a strategic pillar of technological development in Côte d'Ivoire. Mais son rôle reste encore méconnu du grand public.
Ivory Coast has granted an operating permit to a private operator for the development of a mineral water production unit in Samo, in the commune of Bonoua. Amounting more than 23 billion CFA francs over five years, this investment illustrates the industrial dynamic that the country intends to boost in the agri-food sec...
Born from the alliance of the Senegalese group Kirène and the Farès group, Agro-Industrie de Côte d'Ivoire (AGROCI) has established itself in a few years as one of the most dynamic agri-food companies in the country. Located in Bonoua, around fifty kilometers from Abidjan, this modern factory intends to reduce Ivorian...
Launched in 2010 in the wake of West African agro-industry, Africa West Industries (AWI) has established itself in 15 years as one of the flagships of Côte d'Ivoire's manufacturing industry. Specializing in the production of Marseille soaps and edible vegetable oil, this 100% Ivorian company, with more than 400 employe...
With nearly 300 companies active on 120 hectares, the Koumassi industrial zone (ZI) is one of the pillars of the Ivorian economic fabric. Having remained without real renovations for a long time, this strategic enclave of the Abidjan district is today getting a second lease of life thanks to an ambitious rehabilitation...
Ivory Coast is accelerating its industrial transformation by structuring the territory around a constellation of zones dedicated to factories, long concentrated around Abidjan and now extended towards the interior of the country. From the old Koumassi area to the new Akoupé-Zeudji PK24 platform, via Yopougon, Bouaké or...
On January 12, 1994, a decision from Dakar shattered the monetary certainties of 14 African countries. The CFA franc suddenly loses 50% of its value against the French franc. For Ivory Coast, the largest economy in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), it is both a painful electric shock and a structura...
In the 1990s, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank exercised unprecedented control over the Ivorian economy and politics. Between imposed remedies and deep social fractures, the results of this decade remain, even today, a subject of controversy.