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To the average American or even European business person, one of the most remarkable developments, not only in Cote d’Ivoire but throughout much of the developing world, is the work of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN).
For more than three decades—from the time of its independence in 1961 to the 1990s—Côte d’Ivoire had one of the most advanced road networks in West Africa.
Today it is West Africa’s third largest Internet market after Nigeria and Ghana. It also has a mobile phone penetration rate of 70%—one of the highest in sub-Saharan Africa.
It is expected that the Gulf of Guinea will supply about a quarter of all US oil by 2015.
The major segments of Cote d’Ivoire’s industrial sector are energy, oil and gas processing, mining, and food processing. Several major factors will continue to guide industrial growth.
SOTICI (Société de Transformation Industrielle en Côte d’Ivoire), is the leading manufacturer in West Africa of PV and Polyethylene (PE) pipes, and PVC fittings. It is also one of Côte d’Ivoire’s major manufacturers and exporters.
Founded by an Ivorian entrepreneur in 1999, in twelve short years GLS Catering Services, Ltd., has expanded its operations into eight countries on three continents.
Côte d’Ivoire was one of the first countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to gain full internet connectivity. Orange owns an 85% interest in Orange Côte d’Ivoire, which began operating its network in 1996 under the Ivoiris brand, and a 45% interest in Côte d’Ivoire Telecom (CIT), Ivory Coast’s incumbent telecommunications operator, which supplies fixed-line telephone services as well as broadband and wholesale services.
Created in 1998, the CNRA has been Côte d’Ivoire’s primary agricultural R&D agency, accounting for two-thirds of the total research capacity and over three-quarters of its agricultural R&D investments.
The new government of Alassane Ouatarra has established a new approach to agriculture in Côte d’Ivoire called the National Agriculture Investment Program (NAIP). Its goals, according to Mamadou Sangafowa Coulibaly, Côte d’Ivoire’s Minister of Agriculture, are to achieve national food sufficiency, and to increase the agricultural industry’s growth to 8.9%.
