Browsing: Ivory Coast
Cote d’Ivoire, the host of the World Tourism Day (WTD) 2021, on Tuesday, officially launched events leading to festivities which will take place on September 27 around the theme “Tourism for Inclusive Growth.”
The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) is participating in the funding of the construction of a hydroelectric power station for a total amount of €174 million.
African leaders will meet in Abidjan on 15 July 2021 for “an ambitious and substantial 20th replenishment of the International Development Association (IDA20),” an official statement said.
Cote d’Ivoire and Guinea will on Friday in Abidjan, install through their ministerial department in charge of territorial administration, a Joint Technical Commission for the materialization of the borders of the two countries, according to a note sent to APA on Tuesday.
The coach of Ivory Coast’s U23 football team, Haidara Soualiho, on Friday, unveiled his list of players selected for the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, will make a “strictly private trip” to Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo from 2 to 8 July 2021, his spokesman, Justin Kone Katinan, disclosed in a statement.
The Ivorian forest cover is estimated at 2.97 million hectares, or 9.2 percent of the national territory, according to a national forestry and wildlife inventory (IFFN) made public on Tuesday.
The Islamic Development Bank (BID) is financing 20 projects in Cote d’Ivoire, two of which are co-funded for a total amount of 789.70 billion CFA francs.
The criminal court of Abidjan-Plateau, on Wednesday, sentenced the former Ivorian National Assembly Speaker, Guillaume Soro, to life imprisonment in absentia for plotting against the authority of the state.
The former Ivorian president, Laurent Gbagbo, said Thursday he was “happy to return to Cote d’Ivoire and Africa” in a speech at the headquarters of his party, the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI, opposition) in Cocody-Attoban, in the east of Abidjan.