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Ivory Coast

Vitol wants to move into higher gear to make money on CI-202

Vitol is still waiting for a reply from oil minister Adama Toungara to its request to develop new oil and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.06.2015

Azito powers ahead at full capacity

Bang on schedule, Globeleq has put a power plant into production to help meet the country’s ever-rising needs.

Subscribers only Energy 16.06.2015

Presidential lawyers get to work

While international lawyers continue to handle sensitive cases such as Laurent Gbagbo's trial, several local law firms have also received Alassane Ouattara's vote of confidence.

Free access Politics 03.06.2015

Abidjan airport ground service costs set to soar

The airport logistics company NAS looks set to substantially hike costs when it takes over ground services at Abidjan Airport this month.

Subscribers only Business 03.06.2015

Amara Essy struggling to launch campaign

A dissident candidate from the PDCI-RDA in October’s presidential elections, the former secretary-general of the African Union (AU) Amara Essy [...]

Subscribers only Politics 03.06.2015

Patrick Achi sends in the bulldozers

Patrick Achi, the minister for economic infrastructure, is leading the campaign to demolish some of Abidjan’s run-down neighbourhoods in order [...]

Subscribers only Politics 03.06.2015

Ouattara for Mandarin teaching

The growing number of Chinese companies in Ivory Coast since [...]

Subscribers only Politics 03.06.2015

Sirleaf gets new embassy

The Ivorian presidency has provided Liberia with a new 2,000m2 [...]

Subscribers only Politics 03.06.2015

Ex-ambassador shadows successor

Jean-Marc Simon, France's former ambassador to Abidjan, has been omnipresent [...]

Subscribers only Politics 03.06.2015

Bicibourse to handle privatisation of Sucrivoire

Bicibourse, a branch of the BICICI, the Ivorian subsidiary of [...]

Subscribers only Business 03.06.2015

Hyatt Regency picked by SDL in Abidjan

The Californian hotel company Hyatt Regency has won the contract [...]

Subscribers only Business 03.06.2015

Aeria mobilised on Abidjan Aerocite project

Aeria, the Ivorian subsidiary of the French transport and urban [...]

Subscribers only Business 03.06.2015

Pascal Kouassi Yao beats Bouygues, EKDS Nouvelles

Electricite Generale (GECI), the electricity and computing supplies company founded in 2014 by Ivorian Pascal Kouassi Yao, has won the contract to extend the electricity network in the region around the northern Ivory Coast city of Korogho.

Subscribers only Business 03.06.2015

Endeavor elbows Israel’s Telemenia aside

The Ivoirian junior Starenergie2073 has joined forces with Texas-based Endeavor to build a power plant at Songon, to detriment of its Israeli partners.