Tanzania: 40% drop in cashew harvest due to poor rains
Cashew nut output in Tanzania, Africa’s fourth-largest producer, could decline by 40 percent this year as poor rains in major growing areas hurt harvests in […]
Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast to supply half of global cocoa by 2020
Hours after been re-elected as president of Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara told reporters that his country will supply half of the world’s cocoa by 2020. […]
Ivorian opposition member to withdraw from ‘undemocratic’ presidential poll
Former Ivory Coast Foreign Minister Amara Essy has suspended his participation, as an opposition candidate, in the October presidential election, saying the process was undemocratic […]
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI on major African diplomatic tour
Morocco’s Head of State, King Mohammed VI, is expected this Wednesday in Senegal, part of a tour to four African countries. The tour, the third […]
Ivory Coast: Tratafric Motors recorded a short-term debt
The Ivorian subsidiary of “Tratafric Motors” has release its financial results of the year 2014 which will be submitted to the general meeting of the […]
Ivory Coast: Over 700 Moroccan Blue Helmets Awarded UN Medal
Over 700 Blue Helmets of the 21st Contingent of the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces (MORBATT) stationed in Duékoué in western Côte d’Ivoire, about 484 km […]
Ghana and Ivory Coast dispute over oilfields
Ghana and Ivory Coast are engaged in a legal battle at the International Tribunal of the Sea in Germany over the TEN offshore oilfields as […]
Ivory Coast: Ex- First lady imprisoned, national reconciliation fragile as election nears
Simone Gbagbo, wife of former president Laurent Gbagbo, has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for disturbing the peace, forming and organizing armed gangs and […]
Ivory Coast gets B rating from Fitch in anticipation to the next Eurobond
The credit rating agency Fitch has assigned on February 18th the sovereign rating of B to Ivory Coast, for its Eurobond launched earlier this month. This […]
Burkina Faso: The transition must continue, UN official
UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman is in Burkina Faso with the Special Representative for West Africa Mohamed Ibn Chambas to meet with the […]