PM: Ivory Coast to Get Nearly $500M in US Funding

Ivory Coast has become eligible for a 300 billion CFA franc ($500 million) grant from U.S. foreign aid agency the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan said on Thursday. He said the grant, to be released over five years for development projects, would help attract other investors to Ivory Coast, the world's largest producer of cocoa and the top economy in French-speaking West Africa. "The U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has decided to...

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