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Côte d’Ivoire is looking to make a growth-driven sector out of tourism. However, political instability and armed conflict over the past decade have left important parts of infrastructure – including accommodation and transport networks – damaged or in disrepair across the country. The sector’s direct contribution to GDP accounted for 2.3% in...

With eight national parks and six nature reserves, representing 6.5% of the country’s land and a total of 21,038 sq km, Côte d’Ivoire is ranked among the top countries in French-speaking Africa for protected areas. Following a period of economic and political instability, the country is gradually turning to ecotourism once again, as a way of...

With high headline growth opening up new business opportunities, Côte d’Ivoire’s telecommunications sector is continuing to grow on the back of newly inaugurated 4G networks, expanding coverage and a series of regulatory reforms, which include the revocation of some licences for smaller operators and the issuance of a licence for a new entrant...

The development of the ICT sector in Côte d’Ivoire has been led mostly by the fast expansion of telecoms services — and mobile activity in particular — over recent years. As with many frontier markets, the IT segment of the sector, which includes hardware and software development, cloud computing and networking, has lagged somewhat behind....