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Ivory Coast mobile firms risk losing licences over poor service

ABIDJAN, May 6 - Ivory Coast mobile telecoms companies risk losing their licences if they do not improve their poor levels of service, a minister said on Monday.

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I.Coast's San Pedro port ships first Malian cotton

ABIDJAN, May 3 - Ivory Coast's second port of San Pedro has exported its first shipment of cotton from neighbouring Mali and plans to become the principal point of export for the landlocked West African nation's cotton, a port official said on Friday.

03 May 2013

Ivory Coast's Saph 2012 net results down nearly 54 percent

ABIDJAN, April 30 - Ivory Coast natural rubber producer Saph reported net profits of 21.07 billion CFA francs ($42.08 million) in 2012, down nearly 54 percent from 45.62 billion CFA in 2011, the company said.

30 Apr 2013

Ivory Coast brewer Solibra 2012 net profit jumps nearly 16 pct

ABIDJAN, April 26 - Ivory Coast brewer Solibra's 2012 net profit jumped nearly 16 percent to reached 21.79 billion CFA francs ($43.27 million) in 2012, compared with 18.8 billion CFA francs the previous year, West Africa regional bourse said on Friday.

27 Apr 2013

Vitol to buy stakes in Rialto's west African oil assets

GENEVA - Top oil trader Vitol has agreed to acquire stakes in Australian oil and gas explorer Rialto Energy's assets in Ghana and the Ivory Coast, the companies said on Tuesday.

23 Apr 2013

RPT-Ivory Coast to crack down on fraud in power sector

ABIDJAN, April 17 - Ivory Coast plans to clamp down on rampant fraud, which is costing its power utility CIE around 45 billion CFA francs ($90.07 million) in lost revenues each year, a senior government official said.

17 Apr 2013

Ivory Coast leader gets decree power over economy

ABIDJAN, April 10 - Ivory Coast's parliament granted President Alassane Ouattara the power to take decisions concerning the economy by decree this year, giving him a free hand to implement programmes aimed at spurring the West African nation's post-war recovery.

10 Apr 2013

West African bloc to grow 6.5 percent this year: central bank chief

DAKAR - Growth in the eight-nation West African Economic and Monetary Union will hit 6.5 percent this year thanks to a post-crisis recovery in regional powerhouse Ivory Coast but governments need to press ahead with reforms, the Central Bank chief said.

09 Apr 2013

I.Coast utility CIE says 2012 profit up 32 pct

ABIDJAN, April 8 - Ivory Coast electric utility CIE recorded a 2012 net profit of 8.39 billion CFA francs ($16.66 million), up from 6.35 billion CFA francs the previous year, according to an announcement in the state-owned newspaper Fraternite Matin on Monday.

08 Apr 2013

UPDATE 2-I.Coast sets high cocoa farmgate price, exporters wary

* Farmers happy, exporters sceptical (Adds farmer and exporter comments, details)

29 Mar 2013

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Frenetic search for survivors as 91 feared dead in tornado-hit Oklahoma

MOORE, Oklahoma - Pre-dawn emergency workers searched feverishly for survivors in the rubble of homes, primary schools and an hospital in an Oklahoma City suburb ravaged by a massive Monday afternoon tornado feared to have killed up to 91 people and injured well over 200 residents.

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