Abidjan-Baku Anti-Corruption Cooperation: HABG Meets Azerbaijan’s Prosecutor General

On October 28, 2026, in Baku, Épiphane Zoro Bi Ballo, president of Côte d’Ivoire’s High Authority for Good Governance (HABG), met with Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, secretary-general of the OIC, and Azerbaijan’s Prosecutor General Kamran Aliyev. Discussions focused on strengthening ties among Côte d’Ivoire, the OIC and Azerbaijan, particularly institutional cooperation and efforts to combat corruption. The OIC secretary-general raised the prospect of an Africa-OIC summit and a railway connection between West and East Africa. Côte d’Ivoire was also named among the countries invited to a prosecutors’ conference in Azerbaijan in 2027.