Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny

LAGOS, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Samuel Eto'o scored twice to ...  

Cote d'Ivoire is seeing increasingly lively economic activity thanks to strong export growth and a pick-up in private investment, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. According to a statement issued by Arend Kouwenaar, IMF mission chief for Cote d'Ivoire Thursday, economic activity in...  

Resolution 1721, adopted unanimously last week in New York, gives President Laurent Gbagbo and Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny another year in office; ...  

The aim of this campaign is to bring the Ivorian people to take for themselves the fight against unsanitary conditions all over the country. ...  

Source: IRIN Ivorian government lawyers have said they may pursue criminal investigations against the Netherlands-based oil trader Trafigura, which owned the oil waste dumped in open-air sites in Abidjan in 2006. Ivorian health officials, an independent investigation panel, and European lawyers...  

The MTN Group has acquired 100 percent of Cote d'Ivoire's second fixed-line operator, Arobase Telecom, and Afnet, an Internet Service Provider ISP.  

Afren plc has appointed Jack M. McFarland as Director of Operations for Afren Cote d'Ivoire.  

But on 1 October 2008, on the sidelines of a criminal investigation underway in Abidjan against local port authorities—which Trafigura blames for the ...  

"Rotary project fairs are a combination of business with a sprinkle of pleasure," says Robert Atta, chair of the West Africa Project Fair (WAPF) in Abidjan, ...  

Source: IRIN As presidential elections approach at year-end after repeated delays, analysts worry slow progress on meeting the demands of the Ouagadougou peace agreement, combined with what they see as continued hostility among some in power towards foreign-born Ivorians, threaten the elusive...  

Telecommunications firm MTN on Wednesday announced that it had, through its Cote d’Ivoire subsidiary, acquired two telecommunications firms, Arobase Telecom S.A. and Afnet, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisitions were in line with MTN’s ...  

By IRIN (email the author) Thursday, Abidjan - As presidential elections approach at year-end after repeated delays, analysts worry slow progress on meeting ...  

Devon Energy has sold its operations in the west African nation of Cote dIvoire to independent oil and gas exploration and production company Afren for $205 million.  

Source: IRIN A trial is under way in Abidjan of local officials accused of conniving in the dumping of toxic oil sludge in August 2006 and causing over a dozen deaths, and illnesses to tens of thousands. Victims of the Abidjan dumping scandal, environmentalists and lawyers say the real culprits...  

Afren plc has completed the acquisition of Devon Energy Corporation's interests in Cote d'Ivoire and Afren has received full Government and regulatory approvals.