Ivory Coast

Despite enviable growth prospects, persistent military unrest is endangering West Africa’s recent success story

Solid growth in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) masks the ongoing dominance of its larger economies

A drop in global cocoa prices is hampering the world's largest global producer, prompting fiscal and security crises

A wave of protests and strikes are raising fiscal and political pressure on the president's nascent administration

Government plans to make the country a regional energy player are beginning to take shape

Economic growth will vary across the continent shaped in part by external conditions

A number of states look to consolidate economic growth; others face democratic backsliding and terrorism threats

The president's effort to remove a key source of past conflict belies the emergence of new fault lines