Ivory Coast
Government's favourite banker Youssouf Fadiga to manage FCFA 520bn Covid-19 allocation

BNI Director Youssouf Fadiga (left) with the Minister of the Economy, Amadou Coulibaly.
BNI Director Youssouf Fadiga (left) with the Minister of the Economy, Amadou Coulibaly. © BNI
No less than four different public financial institutions competed with each other for the right to manage the emergency funds set up to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. Youssouf Fadiga's BNI finally came out the winner. [...]
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West Africa
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In a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, a small group of financiers are lobbying intensely to get holders of African eurobonds to postpone their redemption dates for two years. The campaign is as advantageous for those waging it, however, as it is for its potential beneficiaries.

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