Thursday 12 November 2026

90 result(s) for “PAS”

Innovation

Digital identity: Côte d 'Ivoire wants to put an end to repeated identifiers

Launched recently in Abidjan, the feasibility study for a national authentication platform and a digital identity wallet should simplify the lives of citizens and businesses. Ministers Vagondo Diomandé and Djibril Ouattara want a unique identifier, without new application. The project is supported by the African Develo...

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Maritime

Port of Abidjan: the banana-pineapple sector pleads for smoother exports

Recently received by the Director General of the Autonomous Port of Abidjan (PAA), Kaassoum Traoré, a delegation from the Central Organization of Producers, Exporters of Pineapples and Bananas (OCAB) exposed the export difficulties of the sector. Fluidity of traffic and handling of perishable products, the quality of w...

par Franck Oulaï
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Investment

PND 2026-2030: IFC and Abidjan continue structuring value chains

The Minister of Planning and Development, Dr Souleymane Diarrassouba, received Josiane Kwenda, regional representative of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), on Tuesday October 6, 2026 in Abidjan. National champions, agribusiness, financial institutions and public-private partnerships were on the menu. The aim...

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Agriculture

Coffee-Cocoa: Ivorian research changes scale

The world's leading cocoa producer, Ivory Coast now wants to strengthen its weight through research. The creation of the Coffee and Cocoa Institute, decided on September 23, aims to strengthen the country's scientific capacities in the face of diseases, the aging of orchards, climatic constraints and the demands of the...

par Chalysa Brou
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Hydrocarbure

Hydrocarbon: Ivory Coast seals a major offshore bet

This Thursday, September 17, 2026, the Ivorian State, Petroci Holding and the Brazilian Petrobras simultaneously initialed 8 Offshore Production Sharing Contracts. A first in the country's oil history, which opens 34,000 km² of the sedimentary basin to one of the world leaders in deep-water exploration.

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Factories

Gold: A 100-ton refinery to dominate Africa

At the close of the coordination meeting on the operationalization of the Ivorian Precious Metals Company (SIMEP), on September 16, 2026 in Abidjan, the Minister of Mines, Oil and Energy, Mamadou Sangafowa-Coulibaly, announced a refining unit with a capacity of 100 tonnes of gold, operational in the first half of 2027....

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Africa

Simandou 2040: Guinea arms its SMEs to win markets

November in Conakry will not be a month like any other for Guinean entrepreneurship. Banks, Fintech and small businesses will meet there for a major national first, the SME and Banking Show of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), while the government increases signals in favor of the private sector.

par Mohamed Fofana
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Formation

Cybersecurity: strategic partnership between INP-HB and ANSSI

After months of dialogue, the Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny (INP-HB) and the National Agency for Information Systems Security (ANSSI) have just transformed the test. The two structures signed, a few days ago, a partnership agreement intended to strengthen training, research and professional int...

par Franck Oulaï
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Formation

Agro-industry: INP-HB and OFI seal a pact for the future

The Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny (INP-HB) and Olam Food Ingredients (OFI) recently sealed a partnership. This framework agreement aims to strengthen the links between university training, applied research and the realities of the industrial field, in a rapidly changing agri-food sector.

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Africa

Ivory Coast: State visit of H.E Mamadi DOUMBOUYA

The President of the Republic, H.E Mamadi DOUMBOUYA set foot on the tarmac of Abidjan, on September 11, 2026, for a 48-hour state visit. Welcomed with honors by the President of the Ivorian Senate Kandia Camara, the Guinean Head of State sealed, alongside the President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, Alassane OUATTAR...

par Franck Oulaï
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Investment

Ivory Coast-World Bank: Abidjan is already laying the groundwork for post-2027

Received on Thursday, September 10 in Abidjan by the Minister of Planning and Development, Dr Souleymane Diarrassouba, the Administrator of Africa Group II, Harold Tavares, pleaded for a rapid definition of Ivorian priorities in water, electricity and artificial intelligence, with a view to the next Country Partnership...

par Jessica Coulibaly
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Innovation

Digital: Ivory Coast relies on 700 public services to change the daily lives of citizens

At the opening of the National Workshop for Prioritization of Digital Public Services and Definition of the Roadmap for Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), the Minister of Digital Transition and Technological Innovation, Djibril Ouattara, set a clear course, increasing the number of digital public services to 700 in t...

par Mohamed Fofana
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