Ivory Coast Leader Sees Steady Growth of 9 Percent Through 2017

Ivory Coast Leader Sees Steady Growth of 9 Percent Through 2017

ABIDJAN, Capital Markets in Africa: Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said he expects an economic growth spurt in the west African nation that’s outpaced all its continental peers to last until at least through next year, and said the country is looking everywhere for investors as it recovers from internal conflict. Ivory Coast has no preference for either public or private investment on whether investors come from “China, the Gulf States” or anywhere else, Ouattara said in…

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Ivory Coast | BRVM Values Combined Cote d’Ivoire Telecom-Orange at $6 Billion

Ivory Coast | BRVM Values Combined Cote d’Ivoire Telecom-Orange at $6 Billion

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, Capital Markets in Africa: A combination of Ivory Coast’s landline operator Côte d’Ivoire Telecom and Orange SA’s local unit may be valued at $4 billion to $6 billion on the regional stock exchange, a deal that could increase the capitalization of Bourse Regionale des Valeurs Mobilieres by as much as 40 percent. Ivory Coast and Paris-based Orange have agreed to merge Côte d’Ivoire Telecom with Orange Côte d’Ivoire, the biggest mobile operator in the West African country by…

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

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

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…

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Cote d’Ivoire forecasts double-digit growth for 2015

Cote d’Ivoire forecasts double-digit growth for 2015

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…

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Moody’s assigns (P)B1 to Côte d’Ivoire

Moody’s assigns (P)B1 to Côte d’Ivoire

Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (Moody’s) has assigned a provisional long-term (P)B1 rating to the Government of Côte d’Ivoire’s forthcoming bond issue. The senior unsecured bond will rank pari passu with all of Côte d’Ivoire’s current and future senior unsecured debt. The rating is aligned with Côte d’Ivoire’s long-term issuer rating of B1. Moody’s currently has a positive outlook on Côte d’Ivoire’s issuer rating. The provisional (P)B1 rating is based on the preliminary prospectus dated 13…

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