Opic opens Côte d’Ivoire office
US development finance institution, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (Opic) has established its first permanent, dedicated regional office in Côte d’Ivoire, in an effort to stimulate investment into development projects in the critically strategic West and Central Africa.
To mark the occasion, Opic president and CEO Elizabeth Littlefield was heading to Abidjan, in Côte d’Ivoire, and Dakar, in Senegal, with a number of international CEOs, to explore opportunities for private sector investment in the region.
“Opic’s Côte d’Ivoire regional office is the start of an important chapter for this agency and for lasting development throughout West Africa,” she said in a statement.
The region was home to a host of growing economies in need of investment in power, infrastructure, water and agriculture, besides others, and Opic stimulated investment interest by providing investors with financing, political risk insurance and support for private equity investment funds, when commercial funding could not be obtained elsewhere.
“As a recognition of mounting investment momentum and rich development impact opportunity across the region, this Opic office builds a bridge for a strong US business presence in a dynamic investing environment,” she said.
Opic promoted investment into development projects throughout Africa, the most recent of which included agricultural modernisation in Senegal, water infrastructure in Ghana and coffee production in Rwanda.
Comments
Press Office
Announcements
What's On
Subscribe to improve your user experience...
Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):
Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format
Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):
All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors
including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.
Already a subscriber?
Forgotten your password?
Receive weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine (print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
➕
Recieve daily email newsletters
➕
Access to full search results
➕
Access archive of magazine back copies
➕
Access to Projects in Progress
➕
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format
RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA
R4500 (equivalent of R375 a month)
SUBSCRIBEAll benefits from Option 1
➕
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports on various industrial and mining sectors, in PDF format, including on:
Electricity
➕
Water
➕
Energy Transition
➕
Hydrogen
➕
Roads, Rail and Ports
➕
Coal
➕
Gold
➕
Platinum
➕
Battery Metals
➕
etc.
Receive all benefits from Option 1 or Option 2 delivered to numerous people at your company
➕
Multiple User names and Passwords for simultaneous log-ins
➕
Intranet integration access to all in your organisation