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...
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.
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...
The Center for the Promotion of Investments in Côte d'Ivoire (CEPICI) recently received a delegation from the European Commission led by Jorge Vitorino, chief negotiator for the European side, before the official launch of negotiations for the Agreement on the Facilitation of Sustainable Investments (AFID). The discuss...
For a long time, the figures for Ivorian private investment resembled a puzzle scattered between several administrations, without an overall picture. CEPICI has just launched the Single Window for Private Investment Declaration (GUDIP), a national system intended to centralize and manage this data in real time, with th...
The Minister of Planning and Development, Dr Souleymane Diarrassouba, recently received Ahunna Eziakonwa, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Director of the UNDP Regional Office for Africa on the sidelines of the 2026 African Economic Conference. This meeting sealed a convergence of views on new levers f...
Ivorian sugar is about to enter a new industrial era. The Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Food Production, Bruno Nabagné Koné, received Olivier Parent, CEO of the SOMDIA Group, who came to present an ambitious contract plan for his subsidiary SUCAF-CI, promising a massive investment of 100 billion CFA fr...
In less than four months, Abidjan will become the business capital between Qatar and Africa. The city will host the 5th edition of the Qatar-Africa Business Forum, scheduled for November 2 and 3, 2026. An edition which will mobilize 95 Qatari companies, more than 300 economic players and major international institution...
The development partners of Côte d'Ivoire announced, on the first day of the Consultative Group, financial commitments of 80 billion US dollars, or 47,820 billion CFA francs, to finance the National Development Plan (PND) 2026-2030, this July 8, 2026 at the Sofitel Hôtel Ivoire. This amount represents approximately fou...
In front of hundreds of compatriots gathered in the French capital, the Minister of Planning and Development, Dr Souleymane Diarrassouba, delivered a clear message: the diaspora is no longer a simple family support, it is becoming a pillar of the national economic strategy. Calling on it to take a remarkable part in in...
The Minister of Planning and Development, Dr Souleymane Diarrassouba, went to Brussels on Friday to open a decisive European front, bringing the ambitions of the PND 2026-2030 before the institutions of the European Union and Belgian and European private investors. Thus, ten days before the Consultative Group of July 8...
The Minister of Planning and Development, Dr Souleymane Diarrassouba, opened on Thursday June 25, 2026 in Paris the roadshow of the National Development Plan (PND) 2026-2030 in front of French companies mobilized by the Mouvement des Entreprises de France (MEDEF) International and the French Council of Investors in Afr...
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