Tag: Ivory Coast
Cocoa prices weigh on manufacturers: "Chocolate is a luxury good"
Cocoa prices are exploding, which is also driving up chocolate prices. They rose by ten percent last year. Chocolate will remain expensive, says Benno Hübel, head of the Berlin praline…
Equatorial Guinea doesn’t have enough: How the “thunderstorm” is shaking up the Africa Cup of Nations
Equatorial Guinea doesn’t have enough How the “thunderstorm” is shaking up the Africa Cup January 23, 2024, 1:59 p.m 4-0 against Ivory Coast: The surprise team Equatorial Guinea first takes…
Ivorian football neglects its young talents who want to leave at all costs
In Treichville, a popular district of Abidjan, in September 2022. ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP To open his training center, Ibrahima* gathered the bare minimum: around ten balls and as many…
zoom on the ten footballers who can make the difference
The Moroccan Hakim Ziyech, the Senegalese Nicolas Jackson, the Algerian Riyad Mahrez, the Congolese Chancel Mbemba and the Cameroonian Vincent Aboubakar. AFP More than 550 players will participate in the…
preparation courses and final adjustments before the competition
Final preparations in Abidjan before the start of the African Cup of Nations (CAN) on January 13, 2024. ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP There is little time left for the teams…
Africa won over by sports betting fever
LETTER FROM ABIDJAN The Félix-Houphouët-Boigny stadium, in Abidjan (Ivory Coast), December 5, 2023. LUC GNAGO / REUTERS In Abidjan, Junior Beugré sums up the sports betting guide in two words:…
In Ivory Coast, the ASEC-Africa Sports derby, a historic rivalry just waiting to be reborn on the pitch
ASEC Mimosas players celebrate a goal during a match against Lobi Stars FC at the Félix Houphouët-Boigny stadium in Abidjan, January 19, 2019. ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP Two stadiums, two…
Tidjane Thiam takes reins of the main opposition party
Tidjane Thiam, in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2020. DENIS BALIBOUSE / REUTERS Successful return home for Tidjane Thiam. The Franco-Ivorian banker was elected, Friday, December 22, president of the Democratic…
the CAN, subject of tensions between European clubs and African selections
Malian international Abdoulaye Doucouré (center), midfielder of English club Everton, during a match against West Ham United, in London, October 29, 2023. ADRIAN DENNIS / AFP Malian international Abdoulaye Doucouré,…
In Abidjan, Ivorians want to “decolonize” chocolate
The Bushman Café in Abidjan always smells of cocoa, but its aroma is particularly heady that day in the small meeting room on the ground floor. A few chocolate bars…
Ivory Coast faces the challenge of the African Cup of Nations
Agents of the Ivorian mounted police in front of the Félix-Houphouët-Boigny stadium in Abidjan, October 17, 2023. ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP Ivory Coast is under construction. From the historic Félix-Houphouët-Boigny…
Date set for intervention: ECOWAS delegation visits Niger with military threat
date for intervention ECOWAS delegation visits Niger with military threat 08/19/2023, 7:53 p.m So far, the West Africans have failed in all attempts at mediation in Niger. After their coup,…