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On April 23, 2015, South Africa’s Megatron Federal signed a contract with the Ivorian Construction and Facilities Management Company (Société Ivoirienne de Construction et de Gestion Immobilière) for the construction of an integrated community comprising 3,500 homes, sports facilities, an…

Thanks to a fruitful collaboration between South Africa’s Ministry of Agriculture and Côte d’Ivoire’s Economic and Trade Office in Johannesburg, legal authorization to export Ivorian bananas to South Africa was granted on March 3, 2015.  The first company to take…

On April 9, 2018, South Africa’s Standard Bank officially launched its operations in Abidjan as Stanbic Bank Côte d’Ivoire.  The Economic and Trade Office in Sandton is proud to have been engaged with Standard Bank since its opening in 2013…

At the end of October 2018, CITRANS received another two ferries from NAUTIC Africa, bringing its total fleet to 9 ferries, serving greater Abidjan.  CITRANS is one of two companies to have been granted a license to transport commuters on…

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire – Vantage Capital, Africa’s largest mezzanine fund manager, announced today that it has provided €19 million of mezzanine funding to Pétro Ivoire, a leading distributor of oil & gas products in Côte d’Ivoire. The company operates a…

By 2020, Côte d’Ivoire plans to generate 150 megawatts of solar power as a part of its strategy to keep up with surging energy demands, while safeguarding the environment. The first, 25 megawatt plant, which is being built in Korhogo…

Out of US$1.9 billion in taxes collected by June 30th 2018, over half (US$950 million) were paid via the new, online tax declaration and payment system, known as E-Impôt. Côte d’Ivoire is the first francophone nation in West Africa to…

Heading north out of Abidjan, the capital of Côte d'Ivoire, one thing that immediately strikes travellers from the West is the quality of the roads. Not here your stereotypical third world dirt tracks. Rather, a network of broad asphalt highways…