{"id":195028,"date":"2025-03-31T17:08:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T15:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-boad-approves-49-5m-loan-for-air-cote-divoires-airbus-purchase\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T17:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T15:08:53","slug":"cote-divoire-boad-approves-49-5m-loan-for-air-cote-divoires-airbus-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-boad-approves-49-5m-loan-for-air-cote-divoires-airbus-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Boad Approves $49.5m Loan for Air C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s Airbus Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The West African Development Bank (BOAD) has approved a loan of 30 billion CFA francs ($49.5 million) to Air C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire<\/li>\n<li>The new aircraft will support the airline&#8217;s long-haul expansion, with planned routes to Paris, Geneva, London, Beirut, New York, and Washington<\/li>\n<li>The expansion is expected to create over 2,160 jobs, both direct and indirect, and generate 30.9 billion CFA francs ($50.9 million) in annual added economic value<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">The West African Development Bank (BOAD) has approved a loan of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503310271.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLDR The West African Development Bank (BOAD) has approved a loan of 30 billion CFA francs ($49.5 million) to Air C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire The new aircraft will support the airline&#8217;s long-haul expansion, with planned routes to Paris, Geneva, London, Beirut, New York, and Washington The expansion is expected to create over 2,160 jobs, both direct and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":195029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[51003,258,256,7832,10845,8326,51002,5958,6183,6555,5959,10578,1218,8828,257,20484,254],"class_list":["post-195028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-49-5m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-air","tag-airbus","tag-approves","tag-boad","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-divoires","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-loan","tag-news","tag-purchase","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}