Côte d'Ivoire: Vulnerable households and small businesses find relief from government program to ease Covid-19 headaches - Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire: Vulnerable households and small businesses find relief from government program to ease Covid-19 headaches Format For Hortense Koné, the manager of a small restaurant in Abobo Belleville, north of Côte d'Ivoire’s economic capital Abidjan, paying her water and electricity bills became a headache last year when Covid-19 lockdown restrictions hit her business. But a decision by the Ivorian government to cover water and electricity bills for households in the lower income brackets has finally brought her some relief. “With the lockdown, the curfew and the ban on opening bars ...