Ivory Coast

Leonardo, BF partner up with Italy govt for farming jobs in Africa

Italian aerospace company Leonardo and agroindustrial group BF signed a deal with the federal government on Friday to offer farming jobs to numerous African countries as part of Rome's. development plan for the continent. The accord becomes part of the so-called Mattei strategy, a group of. initiatives aimed initially at helping financial growth in 9. countries consisting of Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Algeria, which. the Italian federal government hopes will curb immigration flows. This month Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni stated her government. would extend the four-year strategy to Angola, Ghana, Mauritania,. Tanzania and Senegal, bringing the variety of countries to

Fossil Fuels

Cocoa tops global products rally for second year, steel components battle on China need

Lack of rain, heat stress Ivory Coast cocoa farmers

Farmers in the majority of Ivory Coast's cocoa growing regions said on Monday they were concerned about the absence of appropriate rains and the heat, which could weigh on the development of the OctobertoMarch primary crop. The world's top cocoa producer is in its dry season which runs from mid-November to March, when downpours are limited. Farmers in practically all regions other than the western among Soubre, where rainfall was well above average, and Abgoville in the south, where rains were a little second-rate, stated the weather could hurt little pods that will be harvested in February and March. Farmers

Climate Change

World Bank ventures into debt swaps with Ivory Coast education deal

Ivory Coast to establish $500 mln green financing fund

Ivory Coast will develop a $500. million green financing fund to support sustainable development. efforts, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated in a. statement. Africa's 54 countries have borne the force of climate. change, despite releasing far less contaminating emissions than the. industrialised world. They receive just 1% of annual global. climate finance. Ivory Coast's new center will be developed under the. African Green Banks Effort, a platform working to create a. $ 1.5 billion community of green investment facilities by 2030 on. the continent. The facility will be capitalised by public sources such as. the Ivory Coast's government, the

Mineral Resources

Endeavour Mining targets 200,000 oz/year of gold from Ivory Coast mine

Londonlisted Endeavour Mining said on Saturday it had a goal of producing about 200,000 ounces of gold annually from 2025 from its 2nd gold mine in Ivory Coast. Lafigue Mine, inaugurated on Saturday, lies about 500 kilometres (km) northeast of the industrial capital Abidjan, in the Dabakala area. It started gold production in early August and is anticipated to produce in between 90,000 and 100,000 ounces by the end of the year, the company said. In a declaration, Endeavour stated it had actually invested 250 billion CFA francs ($ 415 million) in the project, which it expects to have a

Cocoa traceability rates stop working to improve as EU deforestation law looms