Niger, the world’s fourth largest uranium producer, was ranked 131st among 190 countries in the World Bank’s Doing Business Report, an increase of eleven (11) places compared to the previous year when the country was ranked 143rd. The ref...

One of the top five cotton and gold producing countries in Africa, Mali is a landlocked country in West Africa and the second largest state in West Africa. It is characterised by the extreme youth of its population, with almost half (48.8%) of the Ma...

Guinea-Bissau, the only Portuguese-speaking country in the UEMOA zone, covers an area of 36,125 km² with a population of 1,604,561. The country’s economy is highly dependent on the political climate, the performance of the cashew sector and for...

Côte d’Ivoire has maintained a good economic dynamic in 2019. It recorded real GDP growth of 6.9% for 2019. This performance makes it the leading economy in the WAEMU. Moreover, the Ivorian economy remains one of the most dynamic economies in S...

Burkina Faso, literally the “Country of honest people”, has experienced dynamic and regular economic growth since the slowdown recorded in 2015. Economic growth accelerated in 2016 thanks to the political normalization, favorable rainfall...

Over the period 2017-2019, cotton production increased by 13.4%, i.e. a record production of 678,000.3 tonnes achieved during the 2018-2019 crop year compared to 597,573.2 tonnes during the 2017-2018 crop year. This performance has enabled Benin to b...

CLEMENT NDIAYE, GENERAL MANAGER OF ABCO BOURSE THE WAMU GOVERNMENT SECURITIES MARKET: ITS TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS, ITS STRATEGY FOR ATTRACTING INVESTORS AND ITS GROWTH PROSPECTS IN THE FACE OF THE GLOBAL HEALTH CONTEXT The stock brokerage company A...

ANOUAR HASSOUNE, Chairman & CEO OF WARA “COMPARED TO OTHER COUNTRIES IN ASIA AND EUROPE, WE ARE THE LEAST INDEBTED COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD.” CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF WEST AFRICA RATING AGENCY (WARA), A FINANCIAL RATING AGENCY BASED IN DAKAR, MR. ANOUAR...

SERGE EKUE PRESIDENT OF THE WEST AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (BOAD)   1. Can you introduce Serge EKUE, President of WADB, to our readers?   I was appointed on August 18, 2020, by the WAMU Council of Ministers, after the favorable opinion of the Ass...

Like other regions of the world, economic activity in the WAEMU zone in 2020 was negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As of January 26, 2021, the Union reported 85,791 confirmed cases, including 1,506 deaths, and 10,723 active cases. Even th...