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04/09/2026

🇨🇮🇩🇪 Côte d’Ivoire targets German tourists with new tourism partnerships

Côte d’Ivoire is stepping up efforts to attract more German travellers by strengthening cooperation between Ivorian and German tourism professionals.

A session held in Abidjan on September 3 brought together travel agencies, tour guides, tourism operators and professionals from the hospitality, catering and leisure sectors to better understand the expectations and travel habits of German tourists.

🇩🇪 German travellers are increasingly looking for authentic, sustainable and high-quality experiences from nature and culture to gastronomy and local communities.

Côte d’Ivoire is seeking to turn its tourism assets into stronger products for the German market, including:

🌿 Taï and Comoé national parks
🏛️ Grand-Bassam and its cultural heritage
🌍 Northern Côte d’Ivoire and its traditions
🏖️ The Ivorian coastline
🍽️ Ivorian gastronomy

Hanna Kleber, president of KLEBER GROUP, highlighted three key factors for attracting German visitors: credibility, authenticity and sustainability.

💶 The economic opportunity is significant. German travellers spend more than €24.7 billion annually on international travel, according to figures presented during the meeting.

For Côte d’Ivoire, the objective is not simply to attract more tourists, but to build stronger partnerships, improve service quality and generate greater economic benefits from tourism.

🇨🇮🌍 Through its “Sublime Côte d’Ivoire” strategy, the country is seeking to position itself as a competitive destination for European travellers while transforming its natural, cultural and culinary assets into new tourism opportunities.

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04/09/2026

🇨🇮💰 Côte d’Ivoire: Stanislas Zézé plans investment fund for African SMEs

Stanislas Zézé, founder and CEO of Bloomfield Investment Corporation, has announced plans to create an investment fund dedicated to supporting small and medium-sized enterprises across Africa.

The project was unveiled on September 1 during the first edition of Private Talk in Abidjan.

🎯 The planned fund would support African SMEs at different stages of their development from early growth to expansion with the aim of helping businesses access capital, strengthen their structures and scale their operations.

For many African SMEs, access to long-term financing remains a major obstacle to growth. Limited access to capital can prevent businesses from investing, expanding, creating jobs and becoming more competitive.

Zézé’s initiative aims to address part of this financing gap by combining investment with support for companies seeking to grow and become more sustainable.

💡 No amount has yet been announced for the planned fund, and details on its investment strategy, fundraising and launch date have not been disclosed.

Zézé also announced plans to create a private foundation focused on philanthropy and mentoring young African entrepreneurs.

🌍 If implemented, the investment fund could provide another source of growth capital for African SMEs and contribute to the development of a stronger private sector across the continent.

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03/09/2026

🇨🇮💻 Côte d’Ivoire accelerates digital transformation of public services

Côte d’Ivoire is stepping up efforts to modernise its public administration, with the government focusing on digital services that can have the greatest impact on citizens and businesses.

A national workshop held in Abidjan on September 3 and 4 brought together 84 representatives from 56 institutions to identify the first 100 public services to be prioritised for digitalisation.

The government’s ambition goes further: 🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire aims to develop around 700 coordinated, high-impact digital public services over the next three years.

The strategy is designed to:
🔹 Reduce administrative procedures and waiting times
🔹 Limit unnecessary trips to government offices
🔹 Improve data sharing between public institutions
🔹 Expand digital identity and secure data exchange
🔹 Strengthen digital payments and online services

One of the key principles is simple: if the administration already has information about a citizen, that person should not have to repeatedly provide the same documents to different government agencies.

The government is also targeting a “zero-paper” administration by 2030, as part of the country’s broader digital transformation agenda and the 2026–2030 National Development Plan.

🇨🇮📱 The objective is no longer simply to put government services online. It is to make them faster, more connected and genuinely useful to citizens and businesses.

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03/09/2026

🇳🇬⛽ Nigeria: Dangote refinery cuts crude imports after July slowdown

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery sharply reduced its crude oil imports in August, with intake falling to about 499,000 barrels per day a five-month low.

The decline comes after operational disruptions in July, when maintenance work affected the refinery’s crude distillation unit and reduced its utilisation to around 71%.

The slowdown in July also led to a buildup of crude and refined-product inventories, allowing the 700,000-barrel-per-day refinery to reduce new crude purchases in August.

📉 Petrol production fell to around 25.9 million litres per day in July, from 39.1 million litres in June, while significant stocks remained at the end of the month.

However, the lower August imports do not mean that the refinery has stopped operating.

🔄 With repairs completed and operations recovering, crude intake is expected to rise again in September. Dangote has already contracted around 20 million barrels for September delivery, according to industry data.

The development highlights one of the biggest challenges facing Africa’s largest refinery: maintaining high production levels while securing enough crude at competitive prices.

🇳🇬 For Nigeria, the performance of the Dangote refinery remains crucial to reducing dependence on imported refined fuels and strengthening the country’s position in regional petroleum markets.

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03/09/2026

🇨🇮🍫 Côte d’Ivoire: VERSUS BANK strengthens its commitment to the cocoa value chain

Cocoa is more than an agricultural commodity for Côte d’Ivoire it is a major economic driver supporting millions of livelihoods and businesses.

At the 10th edition of the National Cocoa and Chocolate Days (JNCC), VERSUS BANK is reaffirming its commitment to supporting the different players across the cocoa value chain, from producers and cooperatives to processors and businesses.

The bank is highlighting the importance of financing as Côte d’Ivoire seeks to create more value from its cocoa production and expand local processing.

🇨🇮 The country aims to process a growing share of its cocoa domestically, creating opportunities for investment, industrial development, job creation and greater value retention within the Ivorian economy.

For VERSUS BANK, supporting the cocoa sector means supporting the entire ecosystem behind every cocoa bean: farmers, families, cooperatives, companies and entrepreneurs.

The message is clear:

🍫 More local processing
💰 More value creation
🏭 More investment
👥 More opportunities
🇨🇮 A stronger cocoa economy

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03/09/2026

🇳🇬🤖 Nigeria: GITEX 2026 puts AI and data sovereignty at the centre of the digital agenda

Nigeria is stepping up efforts to strengthen its control over artificial intelligence, data and the digital infrastructure that will shape its future economy.

At GITEX Nigeria 2026, government officials, technology companies, investors and startups gathered to discuss how the country can reduce its dependence on foreign digital infrastructure and build stronger domestic capabilities.

🇳🇬 NITDA Director-General Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi said AI should be treated as strategic infrastructure, alongside connectivity, data centres, cloud services, computing power and data governance.

The Nigerian government is pushing for greater domestic ownership of data, AI technologies and digital infrastructure, while developing systems adapted to the country’s own economic, cultural and social environment.

Several major initiatives are supporting this strategy:

🔹 Project BRIDGE targets around 90,000 km of fibre-optic infrastructure.
🔹 The 3 Million Technical Talent programme aims to expand Nigeria’s technology workforce.
🔹 A National Digital Cloud Policy seeks to attract $750 million in private investment into cloud and data infrastructure.
🔹 Authorities are also working on a national AI strategy and homegrown AI models.

The stakes go beyond technology. For Abuja, control over data and AI is increasingly linked to economic competitiveness, cybersecurity and national security.

🌍 Nigeria wants to move from being a major consumer of foreign technology to becoming a producer, owner and exporter of digital solutions.

As African countries accelerate their adoption of artificial intelligence, Nigeria is betting that digital sovereignty will be a key part of its economic and strategic power in the years ahead.

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03/09/2026

🇺🇸🤖 US: a $5,000 fellowship to turn AI safety ideas into public policy

The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) has launched a new AI Safety Policy Entrepreneurship Fellowship aimed at helping professionals transform ideas about artificial intelligence safety and governance into practical public policies.

The six-month, part-time hybrid programme will run from September 30, 2026, to February 28, 2027.

💰 Selected fellows will receive a $5,000 stipend, with an additional $1,000 merit award available for the most specific and actionable policy proposal.

The fellowship will focus on issues including:
🔹 AI safety and governance
🔹 Cybersecurity and AI-related risks
🔹 Critical infrastructure
🔹 Transparency and accountability
🔹 AI risk assessment and mitigation
🔹 Regulation of advanced AI systems
🔹 Computing and AI governance

Applicants can come from a wide range of backgrounds, including AI research, cybersecurity, academia, law, industry, civil society, national security and public policy. Previous government policy experience is not required.

Participants will receive mentoring, policy training, expert access and support to develop a policy memorandum designed to move an idea from concept toward real-world implementation.

⏰ Application deadline: September 7, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.

🌍 As governments around the world race to develop rules for increasingly powerful AI systems, the programme seeks to build a new generation of professionals capable of turning AI safety research into concrete policies.

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03/09/2026

🇨🇮⚽ Côte d’Ivoire: Yacine Idriss Diallo promises higher subsidies for football clubs

Yacine Idriss Diallo, candidate for a second term as president of the Côte d’Ivoire Football Federation (FIF), has pledged to significantly increase financial support for clubs and affiliated football organisations if re-elected.

Under his proposal:

⚽ Ligue 1: 100 → 140 million CFA francs
⚽ Ligue 2: 50 → 70 million CFA francs
⚽ Division 3: 30 → 40 million CFA francs
👩‍🦱 Women’s football: 10 → 15 million CFA francs
🏟️ Affiliated interest groups: up to 20 million CFA francs

Diallo unveiled the proposals as part of his “Transform to Last” programme ahead of the FIF presidential election scheduled for September 12 in Yamoussoukro.

The objective is to give clubs greater financial capacity while strengthening their structures and professionalising the management of Ivorian football.

But Diallo also wants clubs to become more financially independent over the next five years, reducing their long-term reliance on federation subsidies through new sources of revenue and better financial management.

His programme also includes plans to modernise ticketing, improve stadium security, develop women’s football and eventually launch FIF TV.

🇨🇮⚽ With the election approaching, the debate is increasingly focused on how to make Ivorian football stronger, more professional and financially sustainable.

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03/09/2026

🇿🇦 South Africa: foreign workers leave, but jobs remain unfilled

South Africa is facing an unexpected consequence of its crackdown on undocumented foreign workers: some jobs that were supposed to return to South Africans are remaining vacant.

In Newcastle, a major textile hub in KwaZulu-Natal, several factories have struggled to replace migrant workers who left following anti-immigration protests and a June 30 deadline targeting undocumented foreigners.

Owners of three factories told Reuters they had lost between 12% and 19% of their workforce. Among those who left were experienced sewing-machine operators from neighbouring Eswatini and Lesotho.

The textile workers’ union estimates that around 15% of Newcastle’s 15,000 textile workers have left — about 2,250 people.

The situation highlights a major contradiction in South Africa, where unemployment remains extremely high. About 8.5 million people were unemployed in the second quarter of 2026, with the official unemployment rate at 33.6%.

Yet replacing experienced migrant workers has proved difficult. Employers say some positions require specific technical skills and experience, while unions point to low wages and difficult working conditions as factors discouraging South African workers from taking the jobs.

The debate is increasingly political, with anti-immigration groups arguing that foreign workers take jobs from South Africans. But the experience in Newcastle shows that removing foreign workers does not automatically mean that local workers will fill the vacancies.

For South Africa’s textile industry, the challenge is now clear: how to create jobs for millions of unemployed citizens while ensuring that factories have the skilled workforce needed to keep production running.

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03/09/2026

🇳🇬⚡ Nigeria launches new public company to manage renewable energy assets

Nigeria has launched the Renewable Asset Management Company (RAMCO), a new public entity designed to improve the management, maintenance and long-term sustainability of renewable energy infrastructure financed by the government.

Launched in Abuja on August 26, RAMCO will oversee public renewable energy assets and work with specialised operators to ensure that solar and other renewable energy facilities remain operational after commissioning.

Its responsibilities will include electricity metering, billing, revenue collection, equipment replacement reserves and the publication of performance indicators.

The initiative responds to a major challenge facing Nigeria’s renewable energy sector: some publicly funded projects have deteriorated because of inadequate maintenance and weak revenue-collection systems.

Under the new model, institutions benefiting from renewable energy projects will contribute to the cost of electricity, while revenues generated by the assets can help finance their maintenance and replacement.

The government also wants RAMCO to make renewable energy infrastructure more attractive to private investors. Authorities are targeting up to 3 trillion naira in additional investment in the sector.

🇳🇬 For Nigeria, the goal is no longer simply to build renewable energy infrastructure, but to ensure that these assets remain operational, financially sustainable and capable of attracting long-term private investment.

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