Cocoa and Terrorism: Threat Assessment Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast has one of the fast-growing economies on the African continent. Despite the violence after the 2020 presidential elections, its social-political cohesion is considerably improved.

Since 2017, the salafi-jihadist groups in the Western Sahel region have been gaining momentum and expanding toward the Gulf of Guinea.

This violence spillover and Hezbollah networks, combined with climate change and environmental degradation, significantly threaten Ivorian security and livelihood.