Patrick Achi

Ivory Coast
Achi delegates management of AFCON budget

The $91m funds to cover delegation expenses for the next Africa Cup of Nations will be controlled by both the Ivorian football federation and the Confederation of African Football, but not the Ivory Coast's AFCON organising committee itself.

Africa
Spanish business summit attracts slew of VIPs

More than 20 African VIPs will travel to Madrid for the Africa Spain Cooperation Summit on 6-8 July.

Ivory Coast
Abidjan stings Cargill with hefty tax fine

Faced with a tax adjustment of over CFA Francs 100bn, the US group, the largest exporter of Ivorian cocoa beans, is trying to negotiate with the Ivorian authorities through the US Chamber of Commerce in Ivory Coast.

Palace Intrigues
Macky Sall, Faustin-Archange Touadéra, Emmanuel Macron

Intrigues big and small: every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

SenegalSocial crisis dents Macky Sall's international plans

CARTouadéra expected in Paris for financial summit

FranceSpeculation abounds over Macron's 'Mr. Africa'

Ivory Coast
Tobacco traceability tender call raises hackles of local manufacturers

Ivorian tobacco companies consider that the government's call for tenders to design an authentication and tracking system is likely to favour international players like the Swiss firm SICPA at the expense of local operators.

The New Guard
Burkina Faso, Morocco, Angola, Ethiopia

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

Burkina FasoJoseph Zagré, housing the middle class

MoroccoAhmed "Spins", the other Akhannouch junior

AngolaVera Daves de Sousa, Lourenço's financial ace

EthiopiaBethleem Tilahun Alemu, the entrepreneur keen to rival Nike

Ivory Coast
PM Achi puts plan for difficult districts' urban renewal on back burner

Ivorian prime minister Patrick Achi has postponed the plan to clean up Abidjan's 'challenging' neighbourhoods. Several of the suggestions required expropriation, which was deemed complicated, and too delicate to undertake shortly before the local elections.

Ivory Coast
Ouattara moves to end Eranove's drinking water monopoly

On the Ivorian president's orders, Prime Minister Patrick Achi is taking steps to open up the drinking water market, currently dominated by the French company's subsidiary SODECI.

Palace Intrigues
Alassane Ouattara, Paul Biya, Kemi Seba and Nathalie Yamb

Intrigues big and small: every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

Ivory Coast Ouattara to holiday in French Mougins residence

Cameroon Biya abandons knee surgery

France Army scours Kemi Seba and Nathalie Yamb's social networks

Ivory Coast
Veolia hangs on to Adzopé contract

Alassane Ouattara has opted to extend Veolia's contract to run the Adzopé drinking water plant in the La Mé region of Ivory Coast.

Ivory Coast
BICICI's new shareholders appoint their Ivorian directors

Each of the BICICI's new Ivorian shareholders has appointed two or three directors to represent it on the bank's newly constituted board.

Ivory Coast
Abidjan and Paris discuss AFCON 2024 security

When in Paris last week, Ivorian Prime Minister Patrick Achi discussed the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), which his country is to host in January 2024.