By Ajay Wasserman The debt markets are sending a clear message – and this time, African economies are listening carefully. The bond market is speaking. For...
By Michele Moscaritoli Africa’s largest economy offers unmatched opportunity – but investors are waiting for the fog to clear. Nigeria should dominate every emerging-market investment ranking....
By Michele Moscaritoli For decades, Africa occupied a singular role in the global imagination: the perpetual recipient. Aid packages, charitable donations, development programs – always framed...
By Dishant Shah Cocoa has sweetened balance sheets from Zurich to New York for over a century – but in the very soils where it’s grown,...
By Godfred Zina After emerging from the ashes of the 2010–11 post-election violence – a crisis that left over 3,000 dead and deepened national fractures –...
By Godfred Zina Recent rumors of a potential coup in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) have sparked political unease and raised broader questions about governance, transparency, and...
Reuters | Former Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam has renounced his French citizenship to meet eligibility conditions for Ivory Coast’s presidential election in October, as his...
By Mary Alorh Former Ghanaian President John Evans Atta Mills’ neutral stance during the Ivorian crisis in 2010 demonstrated remarkable diplomatic acumen. When urged by then-opposition...
Bloomberg | Former Credit Suisse chief Tidjane Thiam has won his bid to lead Ivory Coast’s opposition in presidential elections scheduled for 2025. Results of a...
AFP | Ivory Coast’s former president Henri Konan Bédié has died aged 89 in hospital in Abidjan, a member of his party’s communications team told AFP...
AFP | Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) and Ghana, the world’s two biggest cocoa producers, said Monday there had been progress towards resolving a tug-of-war with chocolate...
AFP | Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) reported a fresh discovery of offshore oil and natural gas by Italian firm Eni on Thursday, expanding the potential of...
Reuters | Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara is meeting on Thursday with his predecessors and longtime rivals Laurent Gbagbo and Henri Konan Bedie in an effort...
Reuters | Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) President Alassane Ouattara has named Tiémoko Meyliet Koné, governor of the West African central bank, as his vice president in...
By Max Walter Industrial policy is seeing a revival in Africa and beyond. In fact, governments across the continent are now explicitly using a variety of...
In many cases, the ICC’s pattern of inconsistently pursuing cases has also made it seem like a partisan institution among post-conflict communities, a perception that politicizes...
Ouattara, has officially welcomed Gbagbo's return, seeing it as a key to easing the country's entrenched problems.
AFP | Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo, who returned home last month a decade after falling from power, will meet ex-president Henri Konan Bedie this...
Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana together account for 65 percent of global cocoa production; Farmers in these two countries earn less than 6 percent of the chocolate...
Gbagbo was acquitted in 2019, after prosecutors failed to prove their case.
Gbagbo plans to return to Ivory Coast on June 17 after ICC acquittal
Ivory Coast’s incumbent President Alassane Ouattara won a landslide victory and a second 5-year term in a weekend vote intended to draw a line under years...
National elections took place Sunday in a number of countries. Here are the highlights: Haiti: The successor to outgoing President Michel Martelly, is expected to be...
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said on Monday he would push for constitutional reform if he his re-elected this week to scrap a nationality clause that...
The presidential election in the Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) has been set for October 25 this year – a crucial step toward overcoming a decade of...
Former first lady Simone Gbagbo was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison by an Ivory Coast court for her part in post-election violence that killed...
Prominent members of Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara’s main coalition partner on Thursday rejected a deal by their party’s leader to support Ouattara’s bid for re-election...
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara. PHOTO/File Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) President Alassane Ouattara on Wednesday received the endorsement of former president Henri Konan Bedie for re-election...
Bookmakers are favoring Ivory Coast to be Africa’s leading side at the 2014 FIFA Soccer World Cup. Ivory Coast are seen as the firm favorites amongst...
The Ghana Shippers Authority has threatened to drag Ivory Coast to the ECOWAS Secretariat if it fails to allow cargo trucks from Ghana into its country,...
South Africa’s Standard Bank has offices in Ivory Coast and plans to use its presence there as a launchpad to access the rest of francophone West Africa, StarAfrica reports. “Our...
Ivory Coast’s prime minister says his country is on track to reach double digit economic growth this year and become an emerging market by 2020. In...
Transferring cash between West African neighbors Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso could become easier thanks to mobile giants MTN and Bharti Airtel inking a mobile money...
Thousands of Ivorians flooded the streets on Sunday to welcome back President Alassane Ouattara after a month of medical treatment in France. Ouattara, who came...
Senegal secured pledges worth about $7.8 billion at a donor conference that began in Paris on Monday to help kick-start a development plan aimed at doubling...
Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast have decided to turn over operation of the Abidjan-Ouagadougou railway to mining company Pan African Minerals, and the line will be...
The Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) is working to move away from it’s bitter past as the country consolidates its democratic gains. According to the country’s president...
(Bloomberg) – When Gbemiga Omotoso bought a Samsung tablet computer last year, he handed over his cash to a man in a van. There was nothing...
Didier Drogba formerly of Chelsea holds the UEFA Champions League trophy after his team’s final soccer match against Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena in Munich,...
Didier Drogba of Chelsea holds the UEFA Champions League trophy after his team’s final soccer match against Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena in Munich, May...
(Reuters) – At least 61 people were crushed to death in a stampede after a New Year’s Eve fireworks display at a stadium in Ivory Coast’s...
Didier Drogba (c) congratulates Didier Ya Konan (2nd L) for scoringthe first goal. PHOTO/Alexander Klein/AFP Captain Didier Drogba was among the scorers as title favourites Ivory...
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara. PHOTO/Reuters/Charles Platiau Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara dissolved his Cabinet on Wednesday, officials said, in a sudden and surprising turn of...
The Ivory Coast president says military intervention in Mali is “inevitable” within weeks, if there’s no quick change in the West African country where Islamist extremists...
An official says authorities in Ivory Coast are starting to destroy hundreds of small arms collected since the end of the post-election violence that claimed some...
Oil explorer Tullow Oil said it found oil offshore the Ivory Coast, giving it confidence that it will make additional discoveries in waters to the west...
Former Liberia President Charles Taylor. PHOTO/AFP In a historic ruling, an international court convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday of aiding and abetting war...
The body representing West African nations has imposed severe financial sanctions on Mali, after a 72-hour deadline elapsed and the soldiers that recently seized power failed...
The junior officer who overthrew Mali’s democratically elected leader earlier this month and dissolved the nation’s constitution made a public U-turn Sunday, declaring amid enormous international...
Newspaper vendors in Senegal. PHOTO/File After 50 years of independence, the path to democracy does not follow an obvious, straight line in this region, just as...
Zambia’s captain Christopher Katongo (L) tussles with Ivory Coast defender Souleman Bamba. PHOTO/AFP/Franck Fife Zambia has won the African Cup of Nations, beating pre-tournament favorite Ivory...
Equatorial Guinea has finally bowed out of the African Cup of Nations after overcoming a last-minute coaching change and a disrupted buildup to provide some of...
Laurent Gbagbo. PHOTO/Sia Kambou / AFP – Getty Images Ivory Coast’s ousted leader Laurent Gbagbo was set Tuesday to be transferred to the International Criminal Court...
The International Criminal Court‘s (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said up to six people will be probed for involvement in post-election atrocities in Ivory Coast (Côte...
Ivory Coast has launched a South African-style truth and reconciliation commission in a bid to heal the wounds of a post-election conflict that left at least...
Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa producer, expects to raise its output this year to the point that it could account for half of the world’s...
The Ivory Coast‘s (Cote D’Ivoire) new authorities on Monday named Chelsea striker Didier Drogba (pictured), as a member of a special 11 member commission tasked with...
Laurent Gbagbo and his wife charged with crimes ranging from armed robbery to looting.
