The Coffee-Cocoa Council announced on Thursday, October 29, 2026, the death of its Deputy Director General Koffi N’Goran, which occurred on Wednesday, October 28, in France.
In its statement, the general management paid tribute to one of its senior officials. The circumstances of the death were not specified, and no funeral arrangements had been announced as of Thursday evening.
Agronomist engineer, Dr. Koffi N’Goran was appointed Deputy Director General of the Coffee-Cocoa Council by the Council of Ministers on November 16, 2017.
The government appointment statement assigned him the activities of agricultural development and domestic marketing. He worked alongside Lamine Claude Bamba, responsible for external marketing, industrialization, and statistics.
In recent years, Koffi N’Goran regularly represented the institution’s Director General on sustainable production issues. In May 2025, he participated with the United Nations Development Programme in a consultation dedicated to integrating the coffee-cocoa sector into the revision of Côte d’Ivoire’s climate commitments.
In February 2026, he was still leading the Coffee-Cocoa Council delegation at the Paris International Agricultural Show, where the organization promoted locally processed products and young entrepreneurs in the sector.
The Coffee-Cocoa Council, established by the ordinance of December 28, 2011, ensures the regulation and stabilization of the sector. The institution had not announced a schedule for the funeral of its deputy director general on Thursday evening.
