During an exchange of New Year greetings with the business world, public companies and academics on January 15, the Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara officially announced a bond issue of public treasury bills starting at next week in the form of a eurobond

Abidjan hopes to make a successful return to the foreign market by raising 2.5 billion dollars. Alassane Ouattara gave firm instructions to his Minister of Budget and Finance, Adama Koné, to speed up the process. According to the information, “this operation will essentially consist in the repurchase of the first bonds issued a few years earlier. The funds raised during this operation will not be sufficient.” The country wants to anticipate the approximation of the maturity of its external debt