{"id":532557,"date":"2026-10-12T11:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T11:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/?p=532557"},"modified":"2026-10-12T11:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T11:11:06","slug":"the-cinab-forum-opens-a-business-bridge-to-north-america-in-abidjan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/the-cinab-forum-opens-a-business-bridge-to-north-america-in-abidjan\/","title":{"rendered":"The CINAB Forum Opens a Business Bridge to North America in Abidjan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CINAB Forum C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire opens on Tuesday, October 13, at the Sofitel Abidjan H\u00f4tel Ivoire for two days of meetings between Ivorian companies, investors, and partners from the United States, Canada, and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>This third edition aims to bring Ivorian projects closer to North American financing and markets. It is organized by the Economic Promotion Service of C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire in the United States with the support of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire.<\/p>\n<p>The first day will be dedicated to the opportunities offered by the Ivorian economy. The discussions announced will focus on agriculture and agro-industry, industry and processing, infrastructure, energy, trade, and regional integration.<\/p>\n<p>The program for Wednesday, October 14 will then focus on investment, financing, access to North American markets, strategic partnerships, innovation, and technology transfer. Conferences, panels, exhibitions, and business meetings are planned.<\/p>\n<p>State Minister in charge of Foreign Affairs, Nial\u00e9 Kaba, received on October 9 Inza Camara, Consul General of C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire in New York, to review the final preparations and the mobilization of economic delegations. The ministry presents the forum as a tool of economic diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>The President of the Senate, Kandia Camara, is providing the high patronage for the event. Ministers Abou Bamba and Djibril Ouattara are announced as sponsors, while AmCham and the Cotton, Cashew, and Shea Council are among the associated partners.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 edition takes place three years after the previous forum in Abidjan. The organizers had then announced nearly 1,800 billion CFA francs in investment intentions. These announcements corresponded to planned projects and not to capital already invested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting on October 13 and 14 is set to bring together businesses, investors, and institutions around nine sectors and access to North American markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":532558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_benews_format":"","_benews_media_url":"","_benews_urgent_until":0,"_benews_essentials":"","_benews_format_auto":"","_benews_nl_alert":false,"_benews_premium":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"pays":[133],"personnalite":[],"class_list":["post-532557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","pays-ivory-coast"],"acf":{"type_de_publication":"actualite","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532559,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532557\/revisions\/532559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532557"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=532557"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=532557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}