Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon have signed the Abuja Declaration, forming an alliance that aims to end the exports of raw cocoa beans and negotiate with international buyers as a single bloc controlling about 75 percent of global production. The four countries signed the declaration on Tuesday at the 2026 cocoa value addition summit…
Three Côte d’Ivoire national football team players sitting on wooden studio steps wearing their official orange and yellow tie-dye formal suits. Photo Credit: Ibrahim Fernandez Couture/Instagram Before Côte d’Ivoire play a single minute of football at the 2026 World Cup, they have already won one category: arrivals. The Les Éléphants squad touched down in Philadelphia…
The Netherlands went halfway in the World Cup knockout rounds with a stylish 5-1 demolition of Sweden on Saturday as Germany took on Côte d’Ivoire, with the winner guaranteed a place in the last 32. Sweden, themselves 5-1 winners against Tunisia in their opening Group F match, went into Saturday’s showdown with the Dutch…
Zenith Bank Plc has announced the opening of its Côte d’Ivoire subsidiary, marking a pivotal achievement in the Group’s Pan-African expansion strategy. The official opening ceremony, scheduled to hold on Wednesday, 29 April 2026, is expected to attract senior government officials and regulators from Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire, continental business leaders, and members of the…
Côte d’Ivoire has banned protests in the country ahead of its presidential election on October 25. In a statement released on October 2, the National Security Council prohibited public gatherings aimed at challenging the Constitutional Council’s ruling, which barred two opposition leaders from standing in this month’s election. On September 8, 2025, the Constitutional Council…
Nigeria’s senior national deaf football team, the Deaf Eagles, started their title defense in style with a 3-0 victory over Côte d’Ivoire in the opening match of the 13th West Africa Deaf Football Tournament (WADSU). The match, played at the Moshood Abiola Stadium, saw both teams go into halftime without scoring. However, the Deaf Eagles…
Côte d’Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara, 83, has officially announced on Tuesday his candidacy for a fourth term in the upcoming presidential election scheduled for October 25, 2025. Despite earlier public assurances that he would not seek re-election, Ouattara justified his reversal by citing the country’s worsening security and economic landscape, which he said requires “experience”…
A Beninese journalist, Comlan Hugues Sossoukpè, known for his criticism of President Patrice Talon’s government, has been arrested in Côte d’Ivoire, forcibly extradited to Benin, and is now detained in a southern Beninese prison. Sossoukpè, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Olofofo, had been living in exile since 2019 in Lomé, Togo, where he held refugee status….
President Alassane Ouattara has been officially nominated as the candidate of the ruling Rally of Houphouëtists for Democracy and Peace (RHDP) for Côte d’Ivoire’s upcoming presidential election on October 25, 2025. This sets the stage for a potential fourth term in office, even as the opposition decries what they describe as a deliberate exclusion from…
Cote d’Ivoire has undergone a remarkable economic resurgence following two civil wars (2002-2007 and 2010-2011). The impressive growth across all economic parameters, such as low inflation rates, minimal youth unemployment, economic diversification and strategic infrastructural developments, have fueled the country’s remarkable stability and growth. However, this economic miracle and sustained macroeconomic stability over time (despite…
