Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast is located in West Africa. It borders Liberia and Guinea to the west; Mali and Burkina Faso to the north; Ghana to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south. It is the 53rd most populous country and the 68th largest in the world, with an estimated population of just under […]
Ghana
Ghana is a West African country constituted as a semi-presidential republic. It is bordered to the north by Burkina Faso, to the east by Togo, to the west by Ivory Coast, and the south by the Gulf of Guinea. With an estimated population of 24,96 million in 2011, Ghana is, after Nigeria, the second-most populous […]
Senegal
Senegal is a sovereign state in West Africa whose form of government is the semi-presidential republic. Its total area is 197,161 km2. The country borders Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea Bissau to the south. Senegal has a population of over 13 million, of which approximately 42% live in rural areas. […]
Nigeria
Nigeria is a sovereign country located in West Africa, in the Gulf of Guinea, whose form of government is the presidential federal republic. Its territory is made up of 36 federated states and a federal district. Its total population is 181,562,056 inhabitants (2015). Its capital is Abuja, with 1,178,568 inhabitants, and its most populated city […]
Mali
Mali is a landlocked state in West Africa. It is the eighth-largest country in Africa, and it is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east by Niger, to the west by Mauritania and Senegal, and to the south by Ivory Coast, Guinea, and Burkina Faso. Its size is 1,240,192 km² and its estimated […]
Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon is a unitary republic in central Africa. It is bordered to the northwest by Nigeria, to the east by Chad and the Central African Republic, and to the south by Gabon, Congo, and Equatorial Guinea. The United Nations Organization estimated the population of Cameroon at 19,522,000 inhabitants (2009). The […]
Benin
Benin is a country located in West Africa. It is bounded by Togo to the west, by Nigeria to the east, and by Burkina Faso and Niger to the north. Most of its population lives in the Gulf of Benin. The capital of Benin is Porto Novo, but its government is in Cotonou, the largest […]
Togo
Togo is the 170th most populous country and the 125th largest in the world, with a population of approximately 6 million inhabitants and an area of 56,785 km². Located in West Africa, this Sub-Saharan country has a total border of 1,880 km through which it borders Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Benin. The Togolese economy is […]
Guinea
Guinea borders Guinea-Bissau and Senegal to the north, Mali to the north and northeast, Ivory Coast to the southeast, Liberia to the south, and Sierra Leone to the west. Guinea is divided into eight administrative regions and further subdivided into 33 prefectures. Conakry is the capital, the largest city, and the most important economic center […]
AfCFTA, a lever towards African economic recovery
The AfCFTA (African Continental Free Trade Area) represents a great opportunity of development for the African market. With it, the position of Africa in the national and international markets is being redefined. This free trade zone allows the continent to considerably reduce or even dispense with foreign dependence. It is expected that this year, due […]
Overlook for the agriculture sector in Africa in 2021
Today we present the conclusions of the latest CyclOpe report, which looks at the trends of some key agricultural products for the African economy towards 2021. Agriculture in Africa in 2020 In order to better analyse this year’s overlook, we need to know how the agricultural sector ended last year. The recent crisis that unfolds […]
CFAF 150 billion investment in the Ivory Coast sugar sector
Recently, the main players in the sugar industry in Côte d’Ivoire (the Sucaf-CI and Sucrivoire companies) have signed a plan with the government, the objective of which is to invest more than 150 billion CFA francs between 2021 and 2025. This agreement “concludes the first part of the work we are doing with the two […]
