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Investment | Ivory Coast Attracts $15.4 Billion in Pledges, Twice Its Budget

Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Capital Markets in Africa: Ivory Coast received more than $15 billion in pledges from donors and lenders to fund its five-year development plan, almost double the amount it sought at a Paris meeting that showcased the world’s top cocoa grower as an investors’ favorite in Africa. The West African nation wanted to secure at least 4,425 billion CFA francs ($8.8 billion) in pledges to fund part of a $60 billion investment plan…

ICD supports Ivory Coast to successfully Issue the largest West African Sovereign Sukuk

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Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Capital Markets in Africa — On 21st December 2015 the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, acting through the Ministry of Economy and Finance, closed an inaugural local currency, CFA 150 Billion (USD 244 million) Sukuk al-Ijara (“Sukuk”). The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (“ICD”), an arm of the Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank, acted as the Lead Arranger. The sukuk with a five‐year maturity, was subscribed by regional…

AfDB unveils a blueprint to get rid of Africa’s energy poverty by 2025

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Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, Capital Markets in Africa — The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) unveiled its landmark initiative to solve Africa’s huge energy deficit by 2025 at a High Level Stakeholder Consultative Meeting attended by business and political leaders at its headquarters in Abidjan on 17 September 2015. The “New Deal for Energy in Africa,” which charts the way for a transformative partnership on energy focuses on mobilizing support and funding for the initiative from…

Côte d’Ivoire benefits from strong economic growth and increasing investment

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ABIJDAN, Cote d’Ivoire, Capital Markets in Africa — Côte d’Ivoire’s (B1 positive) very high economic growth prospects, on the back of institutional reforms, support the government’s strong budget revenue performance, says Moody’s Investors Service in a report published on 31st August 2015. “While weak institutional strength poses a key challenge for Côte d’Ivoire, we expect reforms and public infrastructure investment to underpin high economic growth in 2015-16,” says Aurelien Mali, Senior Analytical Advisor —…

BRVM Investment Days: West Africa’s financial centre comes closer to the London Stock Exchange

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LONDON, United-Kingdom, April 29, 2015/ — On the occasion of the second edition of the BRVM Investment days, the regional stock exchange for the eight countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) and many West-African companies have met investors from the London Stock Exchange. The regional stock exchange Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM) welcomes the success of the second edition of its BRVM Investment days, held on April 28 at the…

Côte d’Ivoire and IDB arm signed deal to setup sukuk

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Nialé KABA, minister to the prime minister in charge of economy and finance of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, Khaled Al-Aboodi, CEO of the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), private sector arm of the Islamic Development Bank Group (IDB), signed an agreement to setup a sukuk program in an aggregate principal amount of CFA 300.0 billion. This program will be implemented during 2015-2020 for financing developmental projects and will be executed…

Cote d’Ivoire forecasts double-digit growth for 2015

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Cote d’Ivoire, the world’s top cocoa producer whose economy was battered by a civil war and ensuing political unrest, should see double-digit growth this year according to Prime Minister Daniel Kablan. The West African country has seen its economy expand on average by 9.0% since 2012, and this year “we want to reach double-digit growth,” the Prime Minister added. “We are ambitious in Cote d’Ivoire,” he went on, adding that he expected the country to…