Business document translation in Abidjan

Contracts of all kinds (supply, services, employment, lease), articles of association and other corporate records, tender documents and reports such as activity, audit or project reports. We work mainly from French into English and from English into French. Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese and German are available on request.

A foreign company or NGO in Abidjan usually needs a translation for one of two reasons. Either a document produced locally in French has to be read by a head office, a donor or a bank abroad. Or a document drafted in English has to be understood, signed or filed by an Ivorian partner or administration.

Defined terms stay consistent from the first page to the last. If "le Client" becomes "the Client" in clause 1, it stays that way throughout, so nobody wonders whether two words mean two different parties.

Ivorian company forms keep their original abbreviation with an English explanation, for example "SA (public limited company)". Official names of companies, ministries and courts are never rewritten; where it helps the reader, an English rendering is added in brackets. Clause and paragraph numbers are left untouched, so both sides of a negotiation can refer to the same clause.

A page is 250 words of the source document. We count the words in the files you send and show the total on the quote, so you know the price before we start. From 20 pages, we give you a volume quote.

A 24-hour turnaround is possible with a 50% surcharge, only after we have confirmed it in writing. Prices are invoiced in FCFA; the euro amounts shown here are indicative, at 655.957 FCFA to the euro. See all rates on our prices page.

That decision belongs to whoever receives the document, and we never claim otherwise. What we do is check what the receiving organisation publishes and give you a Requirements Sheet (Fiche exigences) with the official link and the date we checked it.

If an authority requires a sworn translation, it is available on request, signed and stamped by a translator-interpreter approved by the Abidjan Court of Appeal, from 18,000 FCFA (about €27) a page. For Ivorian documents going abroad, remember that Côte d'Ivoire is not a party to the Apostille Convention: legalisation goes through the Ivorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then the embassy or consulate of the destination country, depending on the case.