Sunday 16 August 2026

202 result(s) for “Fonds Européen de Développement Régional”

Investment

Ivory Coast - Canada: 27 billion CFA francs to boost SMEs

The evolution of cooperation between Côte d'Ivoire and Canada also involves small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). On August 6, 2026 in Abidjan, on the occasion of her first official working visit to Eburnia, the Honorable Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, FinDev Canada formalized financing of 65...

par Chalysa Brou
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Industry

Industrial financing: ADCI alongside SMEs in the face of offers from the BNI

On August 12, 2026, at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Côte d'Ivoire (CCI-CI), the Agency for the Development and Competitiveness of Industries of Côte d'Ivoire (ADCI) took part in the presentation ceremony of financing offers from the National Investment Bank (BNI), intended for industrial SMEs and ETIs, as pa...

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Commerce

Ivory Coast - Canada: trade reached nearly 500 billion CFA francs in 2025

Nearly $1.2 billion. This is the value reached in 2025 by trade between Ivory Coast and Canada. The figure was communicated by Anita Anand, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, during her working visit to Côte d'Ivoire.

par Chalysa Brou
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Investment

Cosmos Yopougon: the new bet of the Mayelia Group

After automobile technical inspection, David Fofana entered mass distribution with the acquisition of Cosmos Yopougon. An operation which allows Mayelia Participations to position itself against Prosuma, CDCI and Carrefour in a very competitive market.

par Chalysa Brou
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Énergie

Electricity: Washington puts 171.65 billion CFA francs on Ivory Coast

The United States, via the Millennium Challenge Corporation, donated $300 million, or 171.65 billion CFA francs, to Côte d'Ivoire to modernize its electricity network and consolidate its status as a regional energy hub, for the benefit of millions of West African households.

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Innovation

Satellite: towards cooperation between the Ministry and RASCOM

The Minister of Digital Transition and Technological Innovation, Djibril Ouattara, recently made a strategic visit to the Abidjan headquarters of the African Regional Satellite Communication Organization (RASCOM), the pan-African satellite communications organization. The objective is to transform African space infrast...

par Franck Oulaï
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Agriculture

Oil and coconut palm: Grand-Béréby begins the relaunch of the two sectors

The Ivorian Government is going on the offensive on two long-neglected sectors. The Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Food Production, Bruno Nabagné Koné, launched the interim program for the development of the oil palm and coconut sectors on July 31 in Grand-Béréby.

par Franck Oulaï
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Innovation

Technology: the State boosts the Ivorian unicorns of tomorrow

Since Wednesday July 29, 2026, the dream of every young Ivorian digital entrepreneur has a name and a deadline. The Ministry of Digital Transition and Technological Innovation officially launched the Ivoire Tech Next 15 and Ivoire Tech Scale Up programs at the Sofitel Hôtel Ivoire, the first concrete measures of the St...

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Aérien

Civil aviation: Abidjan, future hub like Dubai

A team from the Directorate General of Air Transport (DGTA) spent a week in Dubai, at Emirates Airlines, to refine the Ivorian strategy which should transform Abidjan into a benchmark West African air hub. Reduced taxation on tickets, unrestricted baggage, direct flight under consideration. The negotiations carried out...

par Mohamed Fofana
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Factories

San Pedro: When cocoa farmers become industrial

The foundation stone of CADESA Processing SA was recently laid in Djirognepahio, on the outskirts of San Pedro. Supported by more than 4,000 producers united within the CADESA cooperative, this future factory embodies a strategic turning point for the Ivorian cocoa sector, long confined to the export of raw beans.

par Franck Oulaï
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Mines

Mining: Ivory Coast draws inspiration from Botswana for an integrated mining industry

By concluding this first cooperation agreement in history, between the two countries in the mining and energy sectors, Côte d'Ivoire is displaying its ambition to transform its geological wealth into a real engine of economic development, taking inspiration from Botswana, an African benchmark in the management of miner...

par Chalysa Brou
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Investment

SGPME - Orange Bank Africa: signature of 2 agreements in favor of VSEs, SMEs and ETIs

In a country where access to financing remains the first obstacle cited by SME bosses, a figure has just brought a breath of fresh air, 17 billion CFA francs. This is the amount that the Ivorian SME Credit Guarantee Company (SGPME) and Orange Bank Africa (OBA) have committed to mobilizing through two agreements recentl...

par Jessica Coulibaly
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