The Central News Agency in Taipei published on 14 February 2023 an article titled "Taiwan Names Envoy to Ivory Coast as Office Set to Reopen" by Joseph Yeh.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taipei has named an envoy to head the "Taipei Representative Office in Ivory Coast." Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs operated a Taiwan Economic Bureau in Cote d'Ivoire until it closed in 2017. This constitutes the reestablishment of commercial relations between Cote d'Ivoire and Taiwan.
Comment: Taiwan has full diplomatic relations with only one country in Africa: Eswatini. In 2020, it established a "Taiwan Representative Office" in the breakaway republic of Somaliland. Taipei also has trade offices in Algeria, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, and both a trade and liaison office in South Africa. Except for Eswatini, none of these offices constitutes full diplomatic relations.
