Kot-d

Main article: Africa

Colonial dependence on France

For 2023, Kot-d 'Ivoire is in colonial dependence on France, which exercises control over all significant processes in politics and the economy. For more on specific instruments of influence, see French Foreign Policy.

US Military Base

2024: Deployment of the US military contingent following his expulsion from Niger

The French edition of Le Monde, citing sources in Kot-D, reported in July 2024 that the country's government had agreed to redeploy the American contingent from Niger to its territory.

The city of Odienne, which is located near the border with Mali and Guinea, was chosen for the construction of a new base in the African Command of the US Armed Forces.

Another part of the military will be relocated to headquarters in Germany by analogy with the "green berets" withdrawn from Chad.

Due to such proximity to the Alliance of Sahel States, American UAVs will be able to quickly explore the situation there.

Economy

ECOWAS membership

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is a regional organization established in 1975 to strengthen economic cooperation between West African countries .

GDP

2018: GDP: $1791 per person

2016: Nominal GDP $34.3 billion

According to 2016 data, nominal GDP is $34.3 billion.

Currency: CFA franc

Main article: Frank CFA (CFA)

Agriculture

Global leadership in the production of cocoa beans and cola nuts

In 2016, Kot-d accounted for 30% of the global cocoa bean market.

For 2019, Kot-d 'Ivoire is the largest producer of cola nut. The same nut that is used to make Coke.

In the West African economy, this plant plays an important role. For centuries, it has been one of the trade currencies in the region, like kari and salt. Each year, the average farmer in Kot-d grows between 5 and 6 tons of cola nuts. In total, the country produces 280 thousand tons per year.

In addition, walnut is grown in Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, Mauritania and Niger. Some of the semi-processed nuts go to the production of drinks on the spot, the other is exported to Europe and the United States. The price per kilogram varies from 250 to 600 CFA francs.

2019: Low use of pesticides in agriculture

Consumption

2023: Fish consumption is higher than meat consumption

2020: The significance of branded clothing

The street life of African megacities simply obliges to be in full view. Abidjan's world is one of inflators, fashionistas and youth gangs. In this environment, patching, demonstration of branded clothes and accessories is an obligatory part of a huge informal economy: a variety of scams, "soap bubbles," all-purpose financial pyramids and banal banditry, where the degree of "success" directly depends on the diversity and effectiveness of status signals provided to victims and competitors.

Social success, namely the divorce of the "sucker" and the maintenance of authority among the "own" - two pillars of the young Abidjan's worldview - require constant adherence to fashion, and brands with it, wrote the Zangaro Today telegram channel in April 2020. But even an honest person is simply obliged to carefully monitor himself, wear tidy and modern things and regularly appear to the public - to maintain his reputation.

For Ivorians, all this is extremely important - because they seriously consider themselves the best imitators of Europeans. So much so that in the youth environment a whole dance was once formed - logobi (from the slang logo, brand), completely built on the demonstration of fashionable foreign brand brands. So, in terms of the degree of "ostentatiousness," Ivorians can compete only with the Congolese.

As in some other countries of the world, Ivorian décalé, life on display, is expressed in a pointed and painful attention to the "authenticity" and "originality" of the brand, albeit sewn in the factories of Ethiopia or Bangladesh. Here seriously "explain for schmot" and seriously spend the last francs on it.

In the local exodus of counterfeit Modern, North American brands are considered more yere, or "trushny," than French and even more so Ivorian ones, which, however, are still "trushier" than other African ones - the susceptibility of the Abidjan "melting pot" to overseas fashion is paradoxically combined with urban arrogance and xenophobia for everything "non-Ivurian" - migrants, northerners, villagers.

At the same time, money, ostentatious luxury and branded clothing hide everyday disorder and the unsightly underbelly of survival, sometimes poor nutrition and even malnutrition. It is no coincidence that the "food" - manzement - was likened in local slang to a variety of shadow, fraudulent and criminal activity. In addition, any super-earnings one way or another instantly scatter across the social environment - all capital is formed and consumed in a constant maelstrom of human meetings, and social life is going on in full view of everyone - in the thick of crowds, discos, restaurants, beer and nightclubs.

2019: Average rice consumption: 121.1 kg per person per year

2018

Vegetable consumption - 36 kg per capita

Minimum age to purchase alcoholic beverages

Power

2020: Energy consumption per capita

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2019: Electrification

Kot-d IT Market

2022: More than 10 start-ups

Population

Main article: Population of Africa

2016:23 million people

According to 2016 data, the country's population is about 23 million people.

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Migration

2021: Net outflow over 4 years

Mortality

Traffic safety

Education

Percentage of people who can read

Health care

2021: Maternity leave

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2020

Duration of guaranteed paid sick leave 6 months or more

Part of the population defecates on the street

Culture

Religion

The second tallest church in the world

Cinema

Ivorian Rogge Gnoane Mbala's film "In the Name of Christ" (Au nom du Christ, 1993) is one of the rare comedies shot in Africa by this time. The story begins with the fact that the stupid pig, believing that he is the messenger of God, convinces his fellow villagers of this and establishes a totalitarian sect in the village. The Achilles heel of the seemingly undivided tyrant is his belief in his own God-choice, which eventually plays a cruel joke with him.

Crime

Prisons

2019: The minimum age for children to be jailed is 10

2018: Number of prisoners per 100 thousand citizens

Sport

2022: The most popular sport is football

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History

2024: France's military cuts

2019: Yellow fever epidemic

In July 2019, yellow fever woke up in Kot-d.

In a few weeks, 89 people fell ill with her in Abidjan, one of them died. The Kot-d Ministry of Health recommends vaccination.

1999-2016

On December 24, 1999, Henri Conan Bedier was overthrown by a military junta led by General Robert Gay. On October 22, 2000, elections were held in the country, in which opposition leader Laurent Gbagbo won (59.4% of the vote).

On September 19, 2002, during the president's visit to Italy, the military rebelled to demand the resignation of Gbagbo and early elections. A civil war broke out in the country. 4,000 troops France and about 6,000 UN peacekeepers were deployed to Kot-d 'Ivoire. In January 2003, peace agreements were reached in France, but the government continued to control only the south of the country. On March 4, 2007, the conflict was finally resolved by the appointment of rebel leader Guillaume Soro as prime minister.

On November 28, 2010, the second round of elections, according to the CEC, was won by ex-Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara with 54.1%, and Gbagbo became second with 45.9%. However, the Constitutional Council declared Gbagbo the winner, awarding him 51.5% of the vote. As a result, both proclaimed themselves presidents, armed confrontation resumed in the country. On March 17, 2011, government forces shot about 60 opposition supporters. On March 31, the UN Security Council imposed sanctions against Laurent Gbagbo. On April 11, he was arrested by the special forces of France, which actually intervened in the civil war on the side of Mr. Ouattar's supporters, most of whom were representatives of Muslim nationalities from the north of the country. On May 21, Alassane Ouattara officially took office as President of the^[1].

On January 28, 2016, Laurent Gbagbo's trial on charges of crimes against humanity began at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

In March 2016, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) attacked coastal hotels in Gran Basam (Ivory Kot-d), 19 dead.

Until 1995

Since the mid-19th century, the territory of the present Republic of Kot-d has been under French rule. In 1946, the colony received the status of an overseas territory of France, in 1958 the autonomous Republic of Ivory Coast was proclaimed (however, this is how it was called in the USSR at that time - this is just a translation of the words "Ivory Coast").

Independence was declared on August 7, 1960. On November 3 of the same year, the first president of the country was the head of the Democratic Party, Minister of State of France Felix Houphouët-Boigny. After his death on December 7, 1993, the head of the National Assembly, Henri Conan Bedier, became president. He was re-elected in the 1995 election, ignored by virtually all other candidates, with a score of 96.4%.

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