Algiers and Abidjan look to strengthen trade

VIPs to flock to Africa business summit in Singapore 

Organised every two years, the Africa Singapore Business Forum will hold its seventh edition in August and will be attended by more than 30 figures from the world of commerce working on the continent.

Ivorian employers' association boss Ahmed Cissé selects his team 

To assist him throughout his term at the helm of the CGECI, the businessman has handpicked three figures with close connections to the government.

Algiers goes after ill-gotten gains 

Algeria is to set up a new agency to manage frozen, seized or confiscated assets as part of its plans to fight corruption. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune told his ministers in a recent cabinet meeting that he wanted the project to move ahead quickly.

Ahmed Cissé sole candidate to succeed Jean-Marie Ackah as employers' association head 

The coming election to succeed Jean-Marie Ackah as president of the Ivory Coast employers' association CGECI is expected to be a mere formality, as the electoral committee has received only the application of Ahmed Cissé.

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After a slow start, Medef turns to Tebboune-era employers' organisation CREA 

On the sidelines of the Franco-Algerian high-level intergovernmental committee held in Algiers on 9 and 10 October, Medef vice-president Fabrice Le Saché had a long discussion with Kamel Moula, president of the Algerian Economic Renewal Council, CREA.

CREA employers' federation seeks to embody Algerian economic revival 

Algeria's brand new CREA employers' federation has hit the ground running and established itself as a key player in the business community. It is keen to distance itself from the defunct business leaders' forum led by jailed oligarch Ali Haddad, a vestige of the last years of the Bouteflika regime.

As they return to Algiers, French bosses caught between old and new worlds 

Representatives of more than a dozen major French companies will later this month pay their first visit to Algiers in five years. But the government is unhappy with their umbrella organisation's continuing collaboration with a counterpart entity associated with the ousted Bouteflika administration.