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Ivory Coast
Abdourahmane Cissé's busy new Africa-wide role at Lazard bank

Former Ivorian oil minister Abdourahmane Cissé last month joined the international investment bank, which will now surely benefit from his considerable contacts across Africa. [...]

Published on 13/03/2025 at 05:40 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Ivory Coast
Abdourahmane Cisse
Afreximbank
Africa Finance Corporation
African Development Bank
Alassane Ouattara
Algest
Credit Suisse
Ibrahim Magassa
International Monetary Fund
Laurent Gbagbo
Lazard
Parti Democratique de Cote d'Ivoire
Petrosen
Rothschild
Serge Ekué
Société générale
Tene Birahima Ouattara
Tidjane Thiam
West African Development Bank

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Alassane Ouattara keeps Tidjane Thiam at arm's length ahead of presidential poll

Seven months before Ivory Coast elects a new head of state, Ouattara continues to give Thiam the cold shoulder. But behind the scenes, several goodwill missions have been launched to bring the two closer. One of them was facilitated by former French president Nicolas Sarkozy.

Subscribers only Politics 12.03.2025

Tidjane Thiam (left) and Alassane Ouattara after meeting at the Presidential Palace in Abidjan, 11 March 2024.

Inner circles | Congo, Ivory Coast
Banker Ibrahim Magassa dispenses financial advice from Abidjan to Brazzaville

At the comparatively young age of 44, the French-Ivorian banker has established himself as a leading adviser to indebted states, initially to Ivory Coast and then to Congo and Ghana. He can rely on a solid network of contacts in Paris, not least at the investment bank Rothschild.

Subscribers only Finance 24.01.2025

Ghana
IMF to meet again on Accra's debt

Two months after agreeing to restructure Ghana's debt, the International Monetary Fund's executive board is about to make an initial progress report. This could give Accra access to around $360m.

Subscribers only Finance, Diplomacy 03.12.2024

Spotlight | Senegal
Diomaye Faye treads fine line between creditors and IMF

Having inherited budgetary constraints, Senegal's new president and prime minister are trying to create some room for manoeuvre, while using the same teams as their predecessors. They must also be wary of upsetting the country's traditional financial partners.

Subscribers only Finance, Politics 11.07.2024

Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye on 20 June 2024.

In Focus | Ivory Coast
Tidjane Thiam secret phone tap agitates Ouattara's inner circle

As the Franco-Ivorian banker sets his sights on the leadership of the PDCI opposition party, a recording made by Ivorian intelligence in 2020 has resurfaced in Alassane Ouattara's inner circle. It's a delicate matter which Emmanuel Macron is mixed up in.

Subscribers only Politics 10.11.2023

From left to right: former president Henri Konan Bédié, Ivorian banker Tidjane Thiam, French president Emmanuel Macron, and current head of state Alassane Ouattara.

Congo
Rothschild lends Brazzaville helping hand with its debts

The advisory bank Rothschild is supporting the Congolese government in the refinancing of its debts with a variety of traders, totalling over a billion dollars. Negotiations with the IMF are meanwhile being taken care of by the prime minister's advisers with the help of the Ivorian banker Ibrahim Magessa.

Free access Finance, Politics 01.07.2022

Ivory Coast
Secret conversations between Alassane Ouattara and Tidjane Thiam

The previously strained relations between the Ivorian president and the Franco-Ivorian financier have eased in recent months. The two have spoken several times on the phone and those around the former Credit Suisse chief executive are now starting to refer implicitly to plans to visit Abidjan.

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Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara and financier Tidjane Thiam.

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Laurent Gbagbo
Lazard
Parti Democratique de Cote d'Ivoire
Petrosen
Rothschild
Serge Ekué
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Tene Birahima Ouattara
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