Sunday 16 August 2026

101 result(s) for “Collège de Défense Nationale”

Investment

FSD-CI: New industrial shield of Ivory Coast

On April 15, 2026, the Ivorian Council of Ministers recorded the creation of the Sovereign Strategic Fund for the Development of Côte d'Ivoire (FSD-CI). Adopted under the presidency of H.E Alassane OUATTARA, this unique financial instrument marks a historic inflection in the country's economic doctrine. It aims to tran...

par Mohamed Fofana
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Factories

AGROCI: Ivorian bet to transform its fruits into an industrial locomotive

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...

par Mohamed Fofana
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Factories

SIFCA: The Ivorian giant that has been cultivating Africa for 6 decades

Founded more than 60 years ago in Abidjan, the SIFCA Group has established itself as the first private agro-industrial group in Côte d'Ivoire and one of the most influential players in the West African economy. Specializing in palm oil, natural rubber and cane sugar, this Ivorian behemoth now operates in five countries...

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Industry

PND 2021-2025: Five years of betting on transformation

At the end of an ambitious five-year cycle, Côte d'Ivoire takes stock of its third National Development Plan (PND). With an overall envelope of 59,000 billion FCFA, the PND 2021-2025 had the vision of “placing the Ivorian at the heart of the economic and social development” of the country. With a strategy structured ar...

par Franck Oulaï
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Industry

PND 2012-2015: the challenge of economic rebirth after the crisis in Ivory Coast

At the end of a decade of politico-military crises, Côte d'Ivoire launched in 2012 an ambitious development plan of 11,076 billion FCFA to revive its economy, restore social cohesion and lay the foundations for emergence by 2020, according to the vision of the Head of State H.E Alassane OUATTARA. Four years later, the...

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Industrial zones

Akoupé‑Zeudji PK24: the new industrial lung of Ivory Coast

About thirty kilometers from Abidjan, the Akoupé-Zeudji PK24 industrial zone (ZI) stands out as a strategic lever for industrialization in Côte d’Ivoire. Designed to relieve congestion in old areas and attract structuring investments, it embodies a new generation of modern, sustainable and competitive industrial spaces...

par Mohamed Fofana
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Industrial zones

ZI Vridi: Strategic engine of Ivorian industrialization

Located at the heart of the Abidjan port system, the Vridi industrial zone (ZI) is positioned as a major pillar of the Ivorian economy. Logistics connectivity, industrial dynamism and attractiveness for investors, it concentrates decisive assets in the national strategy of structural transformation of Côte d’Ivoire.

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Industrial zones

ZI: Yopougon, beating heart of Ivorian industrialization

A true economic lung of Abidjan, the Yopougon industrial zone (ZI) stands out as a strategic pillar of the industrial development of Côte d'Ivoire. Between entrepreneurial dynamism, concentration of key industries and prospects for expansion, it embodies the structural transformation of the Ivorian economy and its ambi...

par Franck Oulaï
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Industrial zones

Industrial zones: An archipelago of the national factory

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...

par Mohamed Fofana
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Industry story

Ivorian industry: the sector in forced march, from the shock of Covid to the ambition of 30%

From resilience in the face of the pandemic to sustained industrial growth, Côte d'Ivoire has transformed its secondary sector into a real economic locomotive between 2020 and 2025. An impressive record (increased productivity, local integration and better oriented exports). However, structural challenges remain and ta...

par Franck Oulaï
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Industry story

Ivorian industry: A lost decade between crisis and resilience (2000-2010)

Ivory Coast, once the economic showcase of sub-Saharan Africa, went through one of the darkest phases of its industrial history between 2000 and 2010. Undermined by political instability, the failed coup d'état of 2002 and its consequences on investment, the Ivorian productive system has retreated, leaving behind close...

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Industry story

Devaluation of the CFA: A decision that reconfigured the Ivorian economy

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...

par Franck Oulaï
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