Sunday 16 August 2026

164 result(s) for “Trophée Bâtisseur 2026”

Investment

Ivory Coast - Canada: 27 billion CFA francs to boost SMEs

The evolution of cooperation between Côte d'Ivoire and Canada also involves small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). On August 6, 2026 in Abidjan, on the occasion of her first official working visit to Eburnia, the Honorable Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, FinDev Canada formalized financing of 65...

par Chalysa Brou
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Industry

Industrial financing: ADCI alongside SMEs in the face of offers from the BNI

On August 12, 2026, at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Côte d'Ivoire (CCI-CI), the Agency for the Development and Competitiveness of Industries of Côte d'Ivoire (ADCI) took part in the presentation ceremony of financing offers from the National Investment Bank (BNI), intended for industrial SMEs and ETIs, as pa...

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Infrastructures

Yopougon: the challenge of new mobility is taking shape

On Thursday, August 13, 2026, in the premises of the Urban Mobility Authority in Greater Abidjan (AMUGA), a group of experts met to kick off a study called to redesign travel in the most populous of Abidjan's municipalities.

par Mohamed Fofana
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Investment

Cosmos Yopougon: the new bet of the Mayelia Group

After automobile technical inspection, David Fofana entered mass distribution with the acquisition of Cosmos Yopougon. An operation which allows Mayelia Participations to position itself against Prosuma, CDCI and Carrefour in a very competitive market.

par Chalysa Brou
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Énergie

Electricity: Washington puts 171.65 billion CFA francs on Ivory Coast

The United States, via the Millennium Challenge Corporation, donated $300 million, or 171.65 billion CFA francs, to Côte d'Ivoire to modernize its electricity network and consolidate its status as a regional energy hub, for the benefit of millions of West African households.

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Briefs

Electronic identification of livestock: the Ministry and Vet'Tronic seal an agreement

The Minister of Animal and Fisheries Resources, Sidi Tiémoko Touré, signed this Wednesday, August 5, 2026, at the ministerial office of Abidjan-Plateau, a partnership agreement with the company Vet'Tronic, represented by its President and CEO, Dr. Walid Ammar. This agreement extends and expands a first protocol conclud...

par La rédaction
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Innovation

Technology: the State boosts the Ivorian unicorns of tomorrow

Since Wednesday July 29, 2026, the dream of every young Ivorian digital entrepreneur has a name and a deadline. The Ministry of Digital Transition and Technological Innovation officially launched the Ivoire Tech Next 15 and Ivoire Tech Scale Up programs at the Sofitel Hôtel Ivoire, the first concrete measures of the St...

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Aérien

Civil aviation: Abidjan, future hub like Dubai

A team from the Directorate General of Air Transport (DGTA) spent a week in Dubai, at Emirates Airlines, to refine the Ivorian strategy which should transform Abidjan into a benchmark West African air hub. Reduced taxation on tickets, unrestricted baggage, direct flight under consideration. The negotiations carried out...

par Mohamed Fofana
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Factories

San Pedro: When cocoa farmers become industrial

The foundation stone of CADESA Processing SA was recently laid in Djirognepahio, on the outskirts of San Pedro. Supported by more than 4,000 producers united within the CADESA cooperative, this future factory embodies a strategic turning point for the Ivorian cocoa sector, long confined to the export of raw beans.

par Franck Oulaï
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Mines

Mining: Ivory Coast draws inspiration from Botswana for an integrated mining industry

By concluding this first cooperation agreement in history, between the two countries in the mining and energy sectors, Côte d'Ivoire is displaying its ambition to transform its geological wealth into a real engine of economic development, taking inspiration from Botswana, an African benchmark in the management of miner...

par Chalysa Brou
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Agriculture

Agriculture: the Academy of rubber trades is born

Africa's leading producer of natural rubber, Côte d'Ivoire is entering a new stage in the development of its rubber industry. With the creation of an Academy of Rubber Trades, professionals want to train a qualified workforce in order to support industrial transformation and meet the new demands of the global market.

par Chalysa Brou
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Pétrole

San Pedro: future oil lung of Ivory Coast

The government, through the Minister of Mines, Oil and Energy, Mamadou Sangafowa Coulibaly, confirms the construction of a second refinery in San Pedro, a titanic project which should triple the national refining capacity before 2040 and propel the country to the rank of West African energy hub. It was in Yamoussoukro...

par Franck Oulaï
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