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Consolidating

our development in Africa and the Middle East

Covering a total of 30 million Africa is in Artelia’s genes. Firstly, as a legacy of Sogreah, which worked on the continent
square kilometres and with just uninterruptedly almost from the time of its creation, implementing several of the major
over 1.3 billion inhabitants living in hydraulic infrastructure projects that are today a feature of many African countries. But also as
50 countries, the African continent a legacy of Coteba, which set up its first subsidiary in Morocco in the 1970s before starting to
has enjoyed economic growth of work in South Africa.
more than 5% these past ten years,
behind China but ahead of many The development of Artelia’s activities in Africa over the past 10 years is a continuation of
of the world’s economies. Artelia’s this historic presence, and involves mainly exporting our expertise. Focusing mainly on
turnover in Africa is now nearly infrastructure in the water and energy sectors, the Group has enjoyed a sustained level of
€30m, i.e. over twice as much activity in the field of dams and hydropower development schemes, with projects such as Félou
as in 2010. in Mali, New Assiut in Egypt, Bagatelle in Mauritius, Rusumo in Rwanda, Bwanje in Malawi and
Karuma in Uganda, to name a few.
Artelia has also been highly active in the areas of water supply, rural development and
irrigation, sewerage and waste treatment, energy transmission and distribution, maritime
facilities and building construction. Our teams have worked on master plans, detailed studies
and the implementation of a wide range of projects such as flood protection in Tunisia and
Madagascar, irrigation network extension in Guinea and Burundi, the creation of desalination
plants in Senegal, solar power plants in Burkina Faso, Mali, Mozambique and Niger, sewerage
infrastructure in Egypt, landfills in Ethiopia and Ivory Coast, port structures in Ghana and
Guinea, commercial and industrial buildings in Morocco and Ivory Coast.

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