Late-night gallery tours and new venues signal a city staking its claim as a regional arts capital On a recent weekday evening, the doors of more than a dozen galleries and museums across Abidjan ...

The Economic Community of West African States and the African Development Bank Group have moved to operationalise the $15bn Lagos–Abidjan Highway project with the induction of a 10-member Board of ...

Trade flows are shifting. Two giants of the Gulf of Guinea – Port of Tema (Ghana) and Port of Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) – are locked in a high-stakes contest to become the logistics hub for land-locked ...

Built on the site of a long-standing landfill area, Abidjan's soon-to-be-opened Akouedo Park is one of the world's latest efforts to turn harmful wasteland into community spaces. Beneath the fresh ...

They say anything can grow in Côte d’Ivoire – including big ideas. But some fear political uncertainty will stifle its development. “Cocoa is a jewel,” says Ivorian chocolatier Axel Emmanuel Gbaou, ...

The 1,028-kilometre six-lane dual carriageway Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Highway Project has entered final stage, the ECOWAS Commission has said. This became feasible when key professionals from the ...

Rubino (Ivory Coast) (AFP) – In the lush forests north of Abidjan, technicians were busy filming on the set of "Le Testament" ("The Will"), a comedy co-production between Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and ...

Schoolchildren, entrepreneurs and farmers are making Abidjan greener with schemes such as collecting and recycling rubbish, improving waste management and boosting local production of organic food.

Despite the high transit levy, the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor is generating more than 200,000 200,000tons of goods per year, The PUNCH reports. The Vice President in charge of National and International ...

Meha Desai is a writer and documentary photographer who has been featured in international publications and exhibitions for work covering food and culture from Mauritius to India and beyond. Part of ...

ABIDJAN, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Splashes of vibrant colours are reviving the urban canvas of Abidjan's Plateau district, the economic heart of the Ivory Coast. Ivorians have previously viewed graffiti ...

The Abidjan-Lagos corridor highway will link the cities of five major West African countries by 2030, and is set to become a powerful economic and industrial hub courtesy of the Spatial Development ...