{"id":198069,"date":"2025-05-14T06:44:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T04:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africas-economic-future-in-focus-as-ceos-meet-in-abidjan\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T06:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T04:44:22","slug":"africas-economic-future-in-focus-as-ceos-meet-in-abidjan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africas-economic-future-in-focus-as-ceos-meet-in-abidjan\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa&#8217;s Economic Future in Focus As CEOs Meet in Abidjan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Addis Ababa, \u2014 -The 2025 edition of the Africa CEO Forum will gather 2,000 CEOs, investors and public sector leaders from over 75 countries in Abidjan from May 12 &#8211; 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The Forum is the continent&#8217;s premier gathering, bringing together Africa&#8217;s top executives, global investors, and government leaders each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">In a challenging global economic backdrop marked by rising protectionism, reduced development aid and high debt-serving costs, the Forum will tackle the prospect of a &#8216;New Deal&#8217; to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505130522.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>Addis Ababa, \u2014 -The 2025 edition of the Africa CEO Forum will gather 2,000 CEOs, investors and public sector leaders from over 75 countries in Abidjan from May 12 &#8211; 13. The Forum is the continent&#8217;s premier gathering, bringing together Africa&#8217;s top executives, global investors, and government leaders each year. In a challenging global economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198070,"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":[2554,258,256,6287,16773,6183,6555,3576,5759,5760,1218,6508,257,254],"class_list":["post-198069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-abidjan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-ceos","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-economic","tag-focus","tag-future","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-meet","tag-news","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\/198069","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=198069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}