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Ivory Coast

There is an ecosystem thats conducive to the emergence of entrepreneurs like us, said company director Fode Yattabare.  By Issouf SANOGO (AFP)

Ivory Coast eyes 'national champion' firms to lead economy

Jul 20, 2026 | Ivory Coast

From natural cosmetics to oil and gas distribution, Ivory Coast is betting on champion firms that emerged from 15 years ...

Jul 17, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Favoured by the likes of Beyonce and Aya Nakamura, Ivory Coast fashion is wooing the world stage, thanks in part to show ...

Jun 10, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Journalists in Ivory Coast have raised the alarm about what they complain are government attempts to shackle their profe ...

May 23, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Buyers trudged through a muddy market in Abidjan, looking for the best-priced sheep to be sacrificed for Eid al-Adha, wi ...

May 16, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast's former president and opposition figure Laurent Gbagbo, who soon turns 81, was reappointed Friday as head o ...

Mar 24, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Cocoa beans dried on tarps in the sun in Aboisso town square in southeastern Ivory Coast before being returned to the wa ...

Mar 16, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Josy's life was turned upside down three years ago when she discovered that her husband had racked up crippling debts an ...

Mar 13, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast on Friday commemorated the 19 victims of a jihadist attack on a popular beach resort a decade ago. Three ...

Mar 13, 2026 | Ivory Coast

The Djidji Ayokwe talking drum , which was looted by French colonial troops in 1916 and taken to France, arrived back i ...

Mar 6, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Ivorian farmer Affoua Mea decided one day she'd had enough. Despite years cultivating rubber trees on the plantation inh ...

Mar 4, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast, the world 39;s leading cocoa producer, on Wednesday cut the price paid to its growers by nearly 60 percent ...

Feb 26, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Brazil has suspended the import of dried and fermented cocoa beans from the world's largest producer, Ivory Coast, where ...

Jan 26, 2026 | Ivory Coast

Laurent Kone's wattle-and-daub house, with its tarpaulin roof and no electricity, lies down a bumpy red-earth track in w ...