The Ivorian government has decreed the reopening of land borders from Wednesday, February 15, at midnight.
Nearly three years after the Covid-19 pandemic, Ivory Coast is reopening its land borders, government spokesman Amadou Coulibaly announced on Wednesday following the Council of Ministers meeting.
The borders will be open from midnight on Wednesday to Thursday.
The West African country had closed its maritime, air and land borders in March 2020 as the whole world barricaded itself in the face of the health crisis.
Although maritime and air borders had reopened a few months later, land borders remained closed.
Ivory Coast shares borders with Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana, forcing millions of people from these countries living in Ivory Coast to use clandestine routes to reach these countries.
"We are now controlling clandestine transit routes, we invite all travelers to use official routes from now on," said Amadou Coulibaly.
Cited as an example in terms of security and the fight against organized crime by Interpol, the homeland of brotherhood had been relatively spared by the Covid-19 pandemic with around 800 deaths, according to official figures.
In January, the National Security Council, chaired by the Head of State, Alassane Ouattara, welcomed the "excellent results recorded in the fight against Covid-19 since 2020".
