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Flooding, landslides kill 8 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast - 8.4 inches of rain in 24 hours
Aerial view of Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Creative Commons / Ghassan Mroue
2024-06-16, Sott
Flooding and landslides have killed eight people in...
Ivorian cocoa farmers ‘barely survive’ while chocolate company profits soar
Farmer Issiaka Ouedraogo walks past cocoa pods growing on a tree, on a cocoa farm outside the village of Fangolo, near Duekoue Ivory Coast. The world's largest cocoa producer resumed exports
AP / Rebecca Blackwell
2024-05-23, Al Jazeera
Aboude, Ivory Coast – It’s 11am in Aboude, a village in southern Ivory Coast, and Magne Akoua has already been working on his cacao farm for several hours. The...
Debate on ditching CFA begins as Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger forge new path
ECOWAS Niger Coup
AP / Richard Eshun Nanaresh
2024-02-23, Al Jazeera
Abidjan, Ivory Coast – Since Niger’s July 30 coup, fissures within the Economic Community of West AfricanStates (ECOWAS) have become bigger. In September, Niger along...
Madagascar: African Development Fund approves a grant of over $9 million to strengthen protection and ...2024-12-20
APO: The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (https://apo-opa.co/4iITWIP) – the African Development Bank Group’s (www.AfDB.org) concessional financing window – approved a donation of $9.42 million to Madagascar to implement climate...
Global Forecast-Fahrenheit2024-12-20
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Global Forecast-Celsius2024-12-20
San Francisco Chronicle: GlobalForecast as of 12:00 GMT Friday, December 20, 2024 _____ City/Town, Country;Friday's Weather Condition;Friday's High Temp (C);Friday's Low Temp (C);Saturday's Weather Condition;Saturday's High Temp (C);Saturday's Low Temp (C);Saturday's Wind...
Benin: some one million people to benefit from loan of EUR 118 million from the African ...2024-12-20
Business Ghana: The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) approved a loan of EUR 118.63 million to Benin to implement the Drinking WaterSupply for Resilience in Rural Areas Programme in Abidjan with the aim of supplying drinking water to an...
African Development Bank Group approves €139 million loan to boost youth employment in Côte d'Ivoire2024-12-20
Business Ghana: The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved loans totaling €139.68 million to support youth employment and entrepreneurship in Côte d'Ivoire, targeting key sectors with high job creation potential. The loan comprised of...
Ivory Coast wants bigger share of its mining boom | Kuwait Times Newspaper2024-12-19
Kuwait Times: ABIDJAN: Ivory Coast's...
Ivory Coast wants bigger share of its mining boom2024-12-19
Potter Leader-Enterprise: Ivory Coast's mining industry is booming, driven by foreign investment and the discovery of new deposits, but the country now wants a bigger slice of the pie for its own businesses. Huge deposits of natural resources -- including oil, gas and gold -- have...
Sudan: Finance Minister Meets AfDB President2024-12-19
All Africa: Abidjan -- Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Dr. Gebreil Ibrahim met,...
Benin: some one million people to benefit from loan of EUR 118 million from the ...2024-12-18
APO: The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) approved a loan of EUR 118.63 million to Benin to implement the Drinking WaterSupply for Resilience in Rural Areas Programme in Abidjan with the aim of supplying drinking water to an...