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Ivory Coast
Abidjan buys 150 Spanish military vehicles for its gendarmerie

Technology & Security Developments has won a €20m contract to supply Ivorian gendarmes, who are grappling with a growing Islamist threat in the north of the country. [...]

Published on 28/06/2021 at 06:00 GMT

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Adrian Navas Carramolino
Alassane Ouattara
Alexandre Apalo Touré
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Santander
Technology & Security Developments
Tene Birahima Ouattara
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Ivory Coast
Thales and Huawei wrestle for northern border surveillance contract

Abidjan is considering deploying and coordinating border detection systems and land and air surveillance systems to push back incursions from rebel groups fighting in the Sahel. France's Thales and China's Huawei are competing against each other to win over the armed forces.

Subscribers only Defence, Business 06.07.2021

Africa, France
African special forces go window shopping at Sofins

Delegations from several African armies were in attendance at the fifth Sofins (Special Operations Forces Innovation Network Seminar) event held from 29 June to 1 July at Souge camp near Bordeaux.

Subscribers only Defence, Business 01.07.2021

Ivory Coast
Ruag supplies army with combat simulators

Ruag Defence France, a subsidiary of Swiss holding company Ruag, has won a contract to install combat simulator systems for the Ivorian defence ministry.

Subscribers only Defence, Business 15.06.2021

Ivory Coast
All eyes on Hamed Bakayoko's widow as she manages his estate

The great and the good of Ivory Coast and beyond are showing a keen interest in how Yolande Tanoh-Bakayoko is consolidating her late husband's nebulous Ivorian and European investments.

Subscribers only Politics, Business 08.06.2021

Yolande Tanoh-Bakayoko, the widow of the late Prime Minister of Ivory Coast, Hamed Bakayoko.

Ivory Coast
Defence Minister Ouattara reviews predecessor's contracts

The new minister of defence, Téné Birahima Ouattara, has ordered a major audit of contracts worth some €75m signed under the administration of his late predecessor Hamed Bakayoko.

Subscribers only Politics 12.05.2021

The new Ivorian Defense Minister Tene Birahima Ouattara.

Ivory Coast
Our revelations on Ouattara's new team

In the upcoming government reshuffle, the president's younger brother will keep the defence portfolio, which he has held since 8 March. The names of all 35 ministers comprising Ouattara's new team will be revealed over the next few days.

Subscribers only Politics 05.04.2021

Téné Birahima Ouattara, known as 'Photocopy'.

Ivory Coast
Presidential election: Adama Bictogo, the real driver of Alassane Ouattara's campaign

While the role of Alassane Ouattara's presidential campaign manager should be officially awarded to Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko, behind the scenes it is the executive director of the presidential party, Adama Bictogo, who will be behind the steering wheel.

Subscribers only Politics 15.09.2020

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Can Houphouet's jeweller put the shine back on Ivorian diamonds?

Transactysglasol's brand new permit to mine diamonds in the north of Ivory Coast on a semi-industrial and industrial scale (AMI 405), the first awarded since the 1970s, marks the first step towards the arduous revival of the sector.

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Alassane Ouattara
Alexandre Apalo Touré
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Libya
From Tripoli to Benghazi, Turkish trader BGN's oil odyssey

Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Ivory Coast
Abidjan buys 150 Spanish military vehicles for its gendarmerie

Ivory Coast
Thales and Huawei wrestle for northern border surveillance contract

Africa, France
African special forces go window shopping at Sofins

Ivory Coast
Ruag supplies army with combat simulators

Ivory Coast
All eyes on Hamed Bakayoko's widow as she manages his estate

Ivory Coast
Defence Minister Ouattara reviews predecessor's contracts

Ivory Coast
Our revelations on Ouattara's new team

Ivory Coast
Presidential election: Adama Bictogo, the real driver of Alassane Ouattara's campaign

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Can Houphouet's jeweller put the shine back on Ivorian diamonds?