Sunday 16 August 2026

69 result(s) for “Dubaï Air Show 2025”

Industry

Ivory Coast in the Top 10: industrialization in progress

The African Development Bank (AfDB) confirms the rise of industrial power in Côte d'Ivoire. According to the African Industrialization Index 2025 (IIA 2025), Abidjan joins the closed circle of the ten most industrialized economies on the continent, with a score of 0.6173. A recognition that crowns years of structural r...

par Mohamed Fofana
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Hydraulique

Drinking water: the State increases the number of treatment plants

In a decade and a half, Côte d'Ivoire has radically transformed its hydraulic landscape. Thanks to a sustained investment policy in the construction of new water treatment plants, the government increased the rate of access to drinking water from 50% to 80% between 2011 and 2025. A remarkable leap which demonstrates re...

par Franck Oulaï
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Maritime

Ivory Coast - Belgium: cooperation for sustainable modernization

The Acting Director General of the Autonomous Port of Abidjan (PAA), Kassoum Traoré recently received a Belgian delegation made up of representatives from Enabel and the Port of Antwerp-Bruges. These exchanges paved the way for strategic cooperation focused on ecological transition, digitalization and logistics perform...

par Mohamed Fofana
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IA

Generative AI: Ivory Coast, digital locomotive of French-speaking West Africa

In its report Global AI Adoption in 2025, published in early 2026 and covering 147 countries, Microsoft draws up an unprecedented map of the global diffusion of generative artificial intelligence. In Africa, the ranking redistributes the cards of digital competitiveness. And Ivory Coast is doing well.

par Franck Oulaï
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World

Singapore: rain as energy

Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a system capable of transforming simple raindrops into electricity. Published last year in the scientific journal ACS Central Science, this discovery is based on a new flow principle and opens a new path for renewable energies, particularly in tro...

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Hydrocarbure

Whale deposit: 4 billion dollars of investment in Ivory Coast

A decisive step has been taken in the exploitation of the largest hydrocarbon deposit discovered in Côte d'Ivoire. The signing of the Final Investment Decision (DFI) by the ENI-PETROCI-VITOL Consortium commits an investment of 4 billion US dollars, for the third and final phase of the Baleine field, bringing the total...

par Mohamed Fofana
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Infrastructures

UNDP - BNETD: a Green Deal

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the National Bureau of Technical Studies and Development (BNETD) have signed a strategic memorandum of understanding, marking a decisive transition from climate commitments to concrete action. This partnership aims to accelerate the deployment of sustainable, inclusive...

par Mohamed Fofana
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Infrastructures

South-South cooperation: Côte d’Ivoire, a planning model for Gabon

A high-ranking Gabonese delegation set down in Abidjan for a strategic immersion at the National Bureau of Technical Studies and Development (BNETD), a few weeks ago. Led by the Commissioner General for Planning, Vulgain Andzembe Tsiegori, this mission illustrates the rise of South-South African cooperation, with Côte...

par Franc Oulaï
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Environnement

Environment: Ivory Coast equips the University of Cocody for more than 110 million

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...

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Investment

Ivory Coast - IDB: $2.7 billion to transform development

Côte d'Ivoire and the Islamic Development Bank Group (IDB) officially launched, on May 21, 2026 in Abidjan, the Member Country Partnership Strategy (SPPM) 2025-2029. Articulated around the theme “From economic growth to inclusive development”, this new roadmap mobilizes a total envelope of 2.7 billion dollars, includin...

par Mohamed Fofana
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Investment

Ivory Coast: the EBRD bets $60 million on Ivorian cashew

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has granted a $60 million loan to the Dorado company to accelerate the local processing of cashew nuts in Côte d'Ivoire. A strong signal for the industrialization of a strategic sector.

par Jessice Coulibaly
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Entrepreneuriat

Ridissi: 100% Ivorian rice

Born from a local ambition, Ridissi rice is gaining ground on the national market, carrying with it the hopes of food sovereignty which should contribute to making Côte d'Ivoire self-sufficient.

par Mohamed Fofana
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