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TotalEnergies Exploration Vice-President to Drive African Upstream Agenda at African Energy Week 2023

Emmanuelle Garinet will promote African oil and gas exploration and production, leading discussions around the role upstream investments play in creating regional energy security

The African Energy Chamber (AEC), the voice of the African energy sector, is proud to announce that Emmanuelle Garinet, Vice President for Exploration Africa at global energy major TotalEnergies, will speak at the African Energy Week (AEW) (https://AECWeek.com/) 2023 conference and exhibition, Africa’s premier energy event, taking place from October…

Source: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) |

World Environment Day brings solutions to plastic pollution into focus

2023 marks the 50th anniversary of World Environment Day, after it was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972

Individuals, communities, civil society, businesses and governments around the world today marked World Environment Day with a focus on solutions to plastic pollution, with official celebrations held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, with the support of the Netherlands. The focus on solutions to plastic pollution this World Environment Day is particularly…

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    • Confederation of African Football (CAF), the Cote d’Ivoire Local Organising Committee (LOC) to mark official countdown with a new TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Cote d’Ivoire 2023 campaign
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Confederation of African Football (CAF), the Cote d’Ivoire Local Organising Committee (LOC) to mark official countdown with a new TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Cote d’Ivoire 2023 campaign

The LOC and CAF have symbolically initiated the 225-day countdown through a synchronized global digital takeover, featuring a lively and concise video reel that reveals the tournament

CAF (https://www.CAFonline.com/) and the Cote d’Ivoire Local Organising Committee (“LOC”) has launched the official countdown to TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Cote d’Ivoire 2023, gearing up Africans and the entire world for the continent's biggest sporting event. The advertising campaign, centered around +225, the dial code for Cote d'Ivoire,…

Source: International Monetary Fund (IMF) |

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board Approves US $3.5 billion Extended Fund Facility and Extended Credit Facility for Côte d’Ivoire

The Executive Board’s decision enables an immediate disbursement of SDR 371.7 million (US$495.4 million), which the Ivorian authorities intend to use for budget support

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved 40-month arrangements under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) for Côte d’Ivoire in the amount of SDR 2,601.6 million (equivalent to 400 percent of quota or about US$3.5 billion). The program is consistent with the…

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Prevention, treatment, reintegration and advocacy: How The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and partners work to end obstetric fistula

In Côte d’Ivoire, Pastor Kouakou Adou Kouamé – a member of the Ivorian Association for Family Welfare’s fistula support committee – works to spread information about the condition among and beyond his flock at the Bondoukou Baptist Church

According to an African proverb, “the sun should not rise or set twice on a labouring woman”. Unfortunately for an estimated half a million women and girls across sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, the Arab States region and Latin America and the Caribbean, childbirth lasted much longer than this proverb warns against – with devastating…

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CORRECTION: Africa Data Centres announces that it will start construction on a new facility in Accra, Ghana

The new facility has been designed for an initial 10 MW, which can expand to 30MW depending on demand

Africa Data Centres (www.AfricaDataCentres.com), the largest network of interconnected, carrier-and cloud-neutral data centre facilities on the continent, announces that it will shortly start construction on its newly acquired land in the Central Business District of Accra, Ghana. The new facility has been designed for an initial 10 MW, which can expand…

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Tizeti to tackle broadband underdevelopment in Cote d’Ívoire with Microsoft

The partnership aims to provide affordable and reliable high-speed internet access to underserved communities and people in the country

Tizeti (www.Tizeti.com), a leading internet service provider in West Africa, announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft to address the issue of broadband underdevelopment in Cote d’Ívoire and bring internet access to almost five million people. The partnership aims to provide affordable and reliable high-speed internet access to underserved communities and…

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Microsoft Airband to Connect nearly 40 Million People across Latin America and Africa (By Vickie Robinson)

Through new and expanded partnerships, Airband is delivering against its goal to connect 250 million people by 2025

By Vickie Robinson, GM, Microsoft Airband Initiative (https://www.Microsoft.com) Today, we’re announcing new and expanded Airband partnerships set to provide high-speed internet access to nearly 40 million people across Latin America and Africa. These partnerships in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala and Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda mark significant progress…

Source: Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) |

H.E. Dr. Omar Alieu Touray, President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission received Mr. Abroulaye Fofana, Permanent Secretary of the Ivorian Inter-ministerial Committee for State Action at Sea

Mr. Fofana came to introduce the Permanent Secretariat of the Ivorian Inter-ministerial Committee for State Action at Sea and provide an update on the activities of the “G7++ Group of Friends of the Gulf of Guinea”

Mr Abroulaye Fofana, Permanent Secretary of the Ivorian Inter-ministerial Committee for State Action at Sea was received in audience on Monday 15 May 2023 in Abuja, Nigeria, by H.E Omar Alieu Touray, President of the ECOWAS Commission. Mr. Fofana came to introduce the Permanent Secretariat of the Ivorian Inter-ministerial Committee…

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Benin, Côte d’Ivoire to premier African Development Bank’s African Green Bank facilities

The African Green Bank initiative was conceived as part of measures to facilitate access to global finance from the current 3% to 10% annually by 2030

The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) is set to roll out the first green finance facilities in two public financial institutions in Benin and Côte d’Ivoire as part of its ground-breaking African Green Bank initiative. The host institutions are La Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations du Bénin (CDC Benin) and the Ivorian…