Côte d'Ivoire Rewrote Its Investment Code in 2024. The Official Fact Sheets Did Not.
Since Ordinance No. 2024-857, full customs exemption survives only in category 1, suspended VAT must be paid back, and the excluded list is longer. Yet the official procedure page dates from 2016 and the CEPICI fact sheet still shows 2018 thresholds. What the code in force says, what the fact sheets miss, and which lines of a business plan to redo.
OAPI Grants Your Title. The Protocol Will Not Say Its Name.
Seventeen countries share one mandatory industrial property title and no national alternative. Twelve of them are least developed countries holding a WTO flexibility they cannot use.
He didn't clear Senegal's debt. He found it.
A chronological, non-partisan read of Bassirou Diomaye Faye's record — the hidden-debt audit, the frozen IMF programme, the EU fishing exit, the Sonko rupture, the ECOWAS chair — and what each move means for an investor or a board weighing Senegal.
Anything Times Zero: Why Budget Never Rescues a Wrong Hypothesis
The best-funded streamer on the continent went dark in 2026. It didn't fail because Africans won't pay — it billed the wrong way into a mobile-money market. A terrain reading of the Showmax tombstone.
CEPICI Registration Timeline in Côte d’Ivoire (2026)
The CEPICI now measures 2.4 days to register a company in Côte d'Ivoire. Being registered and being able to operate are still two different dates. The real sequence — RCCM, tax, banking, licences — from Abidjan.
Why Well-Capitalised Firms Fail in Francophone Africa Within 18 Months
Most well-funded market entries into Francophone Africa fail within 18 months. The three failure modes — regulatory timelines, distribution, and relationships — and how terrain intelligence prevents them.
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