The numbers, addresses and links you want the day something goes wrong. Screenshot it, or print it and keep it in your bag.
When you call, give the commune and a landmark first. If your French fails, get the hotel or a passer-by to call for you.
Address:Lot 134A, M'Badon, Cocody, Abidjan（01 B.P. 3691, Abidjan 01）
Switchboard:+225 27 22 43 77 78
Consular enquiries:+225 27 22 43 77 78 ext. 6028
Consular protection:+225 07 58 32 24 68
Consular email:abidjan@csm.mfa.gov.cn
Website:ci.china-embassy.gov.cn
Consular desk:Mon, Wed, Fri 8:30–11:30
Before you travel, register with your own embassy. That's how you get security alerts and how they reach you in an emergency — the American, French, British and Canadian posts all run online registration.
If someone claiming to be police demands cash, keeps your passport or asks for an on-the-spot fine: insist on going to the nearest commissariat and call your embassy at the same time.
These are the public entry points. Check the current document list and opening hours before you go.
The official visa platform: e-Visa and passport visas are both filed here.
CNI cards, plus residence card pre-registration and biometrics.
One-stop business registration, name reservation, the IDU, and the e-Licences database.
Tax ID, income tax, corporate tax and VAT; FNE e-invoicing connects here.
Employee registration and contributions — from your first hire.
Operator tariffs, network quality complaints and sector data.
Government digital projects published online; local SMEs can bid.
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Monetary policy, the PI-SPI instant payment rail, and payment provider regulation.
Abidjan's teaching hospitals (CHU) — Cocody, Treichville, Yopougon — are the top of the public system. For everyday problems a private clinic is faster and costs you out of pocket; for something serious you go up to a CHU or out of the country. Before choosing, check your insurer's list of network facilities.
185 · medical emergency Insurance must include evacuation CHU Cocody CHU Treichville CHU Yopougon
The ones people here use constantly. Install them and set up the accounts before you fly — you'll thank yourself on arrival day.
The go-to for taxis: locked price, tracked route, safer than hailing on the street. Heetch and inDrive are backups.
Mobile payments. Wave is cheapest, Orange has the widest network. Both cost nothing to install.
For flat hunting. Look at both, then compare with what the agency quotes you — you'll know where you stand.
Abidjan's road layout wasn't designed for newcomers. Download the map offline and save your home and office addresses.
Many embassies run an online registration system that pushes security alerts. Put the 24-hour consular number in your contacts.
Keep in your phone's photo album: insurance card, 24-hour emergency number, scans of your passport and vaccination certificate. Reachable with no signal.
Government offices, markets, renting, seeing a doctor — French is the only language that works everywhere. These lines cover most of it.
Je voudrais déposer un dossier Quels documents sont nécessaires ? J'ai un rendez-vous à 10h Où dois-je payer les frais ? Quand puis-je venir le retirer ? J'ai besoin d'un reçu
Puis-je visiter le logement ? La caution est de combien de mois ? L'eau et l'électricité sont incluses ? Il y a un groupe électrogène ? Je voudrais voir le titre foncier Je signe devant le notaire
Appelez la police, s'il vous plaît J'ai besoin d'un médecin J'ai de la fièvre depuis deux jours Je suis allergique à… Je veux aller au commissariat Je vais appeler mon ambassade
The official bodies this site cites. For any amount, deadline or document list, their current version is the one that counts.
This block is written for you, not translated: Chinese nationals get consular services and the local community, French nationals get registration and the CFE, English readers get the Anglophone posts and the fact that counters work in French.
For English-speaking residents: the American, British and other Anglophone posts in Abidjan handle notarisation, emergency travel documents and citizen services, and most keep a list of vetted doctors and lawyers. Register with your embassy on arrival — it makes contact much faster if something goes wrong. Note that almost every administrative counter works in French, so bring a French-speaking colleague or fixer to anything involving a lease, a land title or a tax filing.