Côte d'Ivoire

On 15 May Yves Brahima Koné, director of the Conseil du Café-Cacao (CCC), raised estimates for Côte d’Ivoire’s cocoa production to 2.2 million metric tons for 2025-26, almost...

The Wednesday press briefings that follow the weekly ministerial meetings under President Alassane Dramane Ouattara are usually routine affairs. But on 6 May, government spokesperson Amadou Coulibaly surprised...

The more urgent the succession question becomes – President Alassane Dramane Ouattara turned 84 on 1 January – the more the ruling party will start to resemble a...

Who would be in the new government? The buzz began after Côte d’Ivoire’s 27 December legislative elections, won by the ruling Rassemblement des houphoëtistes pour la démocatie et...

With the presidential and legislative elections done and dusted amidst much indifference (the 28 December legislative elections attracted less than a third of eligible voters), political minds can...