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Will ECOWAS meet its 2027 currency launch goal?
Deutsche Welle
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August 25, 2025
The plan for West Africa's new ECO currency was already adopted back in June 2019 to facilitate trade and economic integration across the region and serve as a unifying medium of exchange. However, plans to introduce the ECO in the very next year...
Entrepreneurship in Africa: Laying the groundwork for success
The Brookings Institution
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Africa leads the world in entrepreneurial choice, with 22% of working-age individuals actively pursuing new ventures and African women twice as likely to become entrepreneurs as compared with their global counterparts. In addition, over 75% of...
Ivory Coast's Gbagbo rallies opposition against Ouattara’s fourth-term bid
Africanews
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August 17, 2025
Thousands of Ivorians rallied on Saturday against incumbent leader Alassane Ouattara’s bid for a fourth term in office. The demonstrations, the second this week, were led by former President Laurent Gbagbo and come ahead of October’s presidential...
African Development Bank and JICA Launch $5.5 Billion EPSA6 Initiative to Drive Private Sector Growth and Resilience in Africa
Alexa.ng
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YOKOHAMA, Japan – August 25, 2025 – The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to launch the sixth phase of the Enhanced Private Sector...
The Human Cost of Broken Systems
The Will
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August 30, 2025
– When systems forget people, people stop believing in them. August 31, (THEWILL) — We’ve all been there. A form that leads to another form, a phone call that ends in a dead-end or a waiting room-literal or digital-that seems to stretch on...
From Kenyan farms to South African tech hubs: How jobs shape Africa’s regional economies
Business Insider Africa
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August 24, 2025
From family-run farms in Kenya and Tanzania to bustling tech hubs in South Africa and Nigeria, employment patterns tell a story of economic evolution, opportunity, and inequality. A recent dataset from the United Nations on Employment by Economic...
Ivory Coast village reburies relatives as rising sea engulfs cemetery
FOX 28 - Washington State
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August 15, 2025
Fisherman Alphonse Akadie was forced to exhume the bodies of his relatives last year from the village cemetery in Ivory Coast to avoid their remains being carried off into the ocean. Over the last 50 years, the Atlantic waters, rising as a result...
Business News | India Exim Bank Signs $40 Mn Credit Line Agreement with ECOWAS Bank to Boost Trade with Africa
Latestly
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August 21, 2025
New Delhi [India], August 21 (ANI): The Export-Import Bank of India (India Exim Bank) and ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) have signed a commercial credit line agreement of USD 40 million. The agreement will create new...
Ivory Coast: Ouattara Touts Peace In War-Scarred Bouake
StratNews Global
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August 14, 2025
Home Africa Ivory Coast: Ouattara Touts Peace In War-Scarred Bouake Ouattara, a former international banker who announced last month he would seek re-election, is widely credited for Ivory Coast's steady economic growth since he took office. Some...
AKO 10 Delivers Electrifying Fights, Elevates African MMA
This Day
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August 30, 2025
The African Knockout Championship (AKO) once again proved its place as the continent’s premier mixed martial arts event as it roared to life at the Velodrome, leaving fans with a night of action, heart, and history that will not soon be forgotten....
Y2K fashion and vinyl grooves: meet Abidjan’s young guardians of nostalgia
The Guardian
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August 24, 2025
Shortly after it was launched in 2020, the Instagram-based project Archives Ivoire received a major boost when the French-Malian superstar Aya Nakamura reshared a meme it had made from the series Nafi, one of Francophone Africa’s most beloved TV...
Ivory Coast cuts cocoa export contracts due to poor weather
BusinessLIVE
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Abijan — Ivory Coast’s Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC) has cut to 1.2-million tonnes its export contract sales of the main crop from October to March, down from 1.3-million, two council sources told Reuters on Wednesday. The cocoa sector regulator...
Ivory Coast protesters demand inclusion of opposition leaders in presidential race
Zambian Observer
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August 12, 2025
Thousands flooded the streets of Abidjan on Saturday, rallying against the exclusion of key opposition figures from Ivory Coast’s October presidential election. The demonstration, according to an AP report, began in Yopougon, one of the capital’s...
Cocoa Prices Whipsaw as Ivory Coast Slashes Exports, Demand Cools
News Ghana
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August 16, 2025
Côte d’Ivoire’s shock decision to cut 2025/26 cocoa export contracts by 100,000 MT sent markets reeling this week, amplifying volatility in an already fragile sector. Prices swung from $9,300 to $8,600 per metric ton—still 36% below 2024’s peak...
TICAD 9 concludes, reaffirming the importance of multilateral trade
The Standard
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President William Ruto delivers a keynote address at the ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9) plenary summit on the society pillar in Yokohama city, Japan.[PCSU] The Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African...
From Arewa to Lagos: A journey of northern enterprise
Daily Trust
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August 23, 2025
In late July ever year, the rainy season peaks in North-Central, Nigeria. It is a crucial time for yam farmers in Niger State as they get busy weeding their farms to ensure a better yield. Yam seedlings, typically planted around April, will be...
Ivory Coast ex-leader’s party says two more members arrested
African Insider
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August 11, 2025
Abidjan – The party of former Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo said on Sunday that two more of its members had been arrested as part of a campaign of “intimidation” by the authorities. Critics have accused the west African nation’s government of...
Barrick Eyes Exit from Ivory Coast’s Tongon Mine in $500 Million Deal with China’s Zijin
Yahoo Finance
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Barrick Mining Corporation (NYSE:B) is one of the best cheap growth stocks to buy according to analysts. On July 23, 2025, reports emerged that China’s Zijin Mining is in advanced talks to acquire Barrick’s Tongon gold mine in Ivory Coast for up...
Ivory Coast Hit by Mass Protests
Modern Tokyo Times
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August 10, 2025
Ivory Coast Hit by Mass Protests Noriko Watanabe, Kanako Mita, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Widespread protests have erupted in Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast, in response to policies seen as consolidating power under President...
High cocoa prices: Ghana, others to see only limited economic gains
MyJoyOnline
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August 22, 2025
Africa’s cocoa producers, including Ghana, will see only limited economic gains from structurally higher global cocoa prices. According to Fitch Solutions, the feedthrough of higher international prices to local farmers will also remain limited....