Spotlight | Ivory Coast
DTTV, the new battlefield for national and foreign operators

The New Guard
Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Burundi

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

Ivory CoastAmadou Martial Diallo, the youth card for billboard giant JCDecaux

MauritaniaSidi Mohamed Dhaker, already a central bank heavyweight

BurundiFabrice Kaburugutu, Burundi's representative on the global stage

Ivory Coast
Regime business barons make reality TV their latest battleground

Loïc Folloroux and Fabrice Sawegnon, both linked to the presidential couple, are competitors in television as well as in the corridors of power, and their stations have got caught up in their tug-of-war.

Ivory Coast
Canal+ International's 'power couple'

The Plaza Athénée hotel in Paris last weekend welcomed the extended family of President Alassane Ouattara, whose daughter-in-law Nathalie Folloroux married Marc Socquet on 26 June at the town hall in the 16th arrondissement.

Ivory Coast
Yassine Mohamed racks up the presidential contracts

The communications agency Sixième sens - co-founded by Barry Alexandre [...]

Ivory Coast
A new MD for Orange Bank

In late October, board members at the mobile payment company [...]

Ivory Coast
Ouattaras in Antibes for Haddad wedding

Before returning to Ivory Coast after several weeks' holiday in [...]

DRC
Linda Claude Bouboutou-Kabore, Kinshasa's sales rep in west Africa

A pharmacist by training, the Congolese Linda Claude Bouboutou-Kabore was recently appointed for a three-year term as head of the [...]

Ivory Coast
Orange chief exec lobbies in Abidjan

On 13 June, Stephane Richard, the CEO of the telephone [...]

Document | Ivory Coast
Sangare Lancine hits back at Rokeyatou, Alassane Ouattara's sister

Imprisoned for over a year at the Maison d'arret et de correction d'Abidjan (MACA) with no trial in prospect, Sangare [...]

Ivory Coast
Saf Cacao dents NSIA Banque's fortunes

The liquidation of the Ivorian trading company Saf Cacao back [...]

France, Ivory Coast
Xavier Niel gets his licence for his television bundle

In early June, the French businessman Xavier Niel secured a [...]

Ivory Coast
Michel Abrogoua teams up with the Chinese

On 12 March, the boss of the private equity firm [...]

Ivory Coast
How Atex Mining got hold of Boundiali lithium

The good relations Atex Mining Resources' shareholders enjoy with the entourage of Bruno Kone, Ivorian minister of communication, digital economy [...]

Ivory Coast
TF1 abandons its partnership with Voodoo

Martin Bouygues's French television company TF1 has broken off its [...]

Ivory Coast
Xavier Niel seeks to shake Bollore's complacency

The founder of Free intends to give the French media company a run for its money on digital bundles.

Madagascar
Hassanein Hiridjee and Senegal on different wavelengths

The dispute, already several months old, which is pitting the [...]

Ivory Coast
Alain Kouadio to build the new GLCI temple

The businessman Alain Kouadio, the CEO of the architecture and [...]

Document | France, Gabon
Bouygues shutdown decision provokes union outrage

The sudden decision of France's Bouygues group to close its heavily indebted subsidiary, Bouygues energie & services, and withdraw completely [...]

Ivory Coast
Amadou Kane poached by Jean Kacou Diagou

The former Senegalese minister of the economy and finance, Amadou [...]

Ivory Coast
Hamed Bakayoko: a Grand Master of ‘false brethren'!

The minister of defence is on the warpath against indiscreet elements in his lodge.

Ivory Coast
Yerim Sow stirs up the cement workers

Yerim Sow, the CEO of Teylium (banking, agribusiness, property) has [...]

Ivory Coast
Grand TV jackpot for Alassane Ouattara’s pals

Via the broadcasting authority Haute Autorite de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HACA) and following a tender call, the Ivorian state has [...]

Congo
Canal Plus launches digital terrestrial channel

Hot on the heels of the all-news channel Africanews, on [...]

Ivory Coast
Night time the right time in Abidjan

Abidjan’s decade-long crisis is far from the minds of the ministers, business people and former French soldiers investing in the city’s new growth sector – nightclubs.

Insiders | Ivory Coast
Dominique Ouattara, a first lady who combines business and charity

Few wives of African heads of state succeed like Dominique Ouattara in establishing themselves as champions of humanitarian aid and entrepreneurs without the help of their husbands. Through these two activities, Alassane Ouattara's wife has built up a highly varied contacts network which includes the Ivorian elite and the heads of top-ranking companies but also showbiz and media personalities.