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The country’s return to stability following the conflicts throughout most of the 2000s, as well as the elevated growth that has come with it, have catalysed a resurgent tourism sector. While tourism’s contribution to GDP stood at just 0.6% in 2011, in April 2017 Côte d’Ivoire Tourism, the body in charge of promoting the tourism sector,...

In March 2016 an attack at the beach resort of Grand-Bassam killed 19 people, of which the majority were civilians. The Jihadist group Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed responsibility. Following the incident, the government disbursed a CFA300m (€450,000) support package to the town of Grand-Bassam, with CFA200m (€300,000) going...

Transport authorities in Côte d’Ivoire’s economic capital of Abidjan are working on a medium-term plan to replace and expand the city’s public buses and boats, raise the number of bridges in the congested city from three to five and construct a metro network.

The ICT sector still represents a relatively small proportion of the Ivorian economy, with most growth over recent years achieved via the telecoms industry. Mobile services in particular have grown exponentially over the past decade, but areas such as software, hardware, cloud computing and IT service outsourcing remain a comparatively small...

Côte d’Ivoire is actively seeking investors, both public and private, from home and abroad, as part of a broader aim to transform the tourism sector into one of the top three income-generating industries in the country. Creating investment opportunities is one of the four principle elements of Côte d’Ivoire’s tourism development strategy (see...

Flag carrier Air Côte d’Ivoire (ACI) began operations in 2012 to replace its insolvent predecessor, Air Ivoire. The airline is now well established and serves Abidjan, Bouaké, Korhogo, San Pedro, Odienné and Man domestically, as well as 20 cities throughout West Africa.