Zipline Scales AI Health Logistics in Côte d'Ivoire to 10 Hubs, 12 Million People
Zipline has announced an expansion of its AI-powered health logistics operations in Côte d'Ivoire to 10 delivery hubs serving a reported 12 million people, backed by $150 million in financing. The deployment is described as one of the largest AI-driven health logistics rollouts on the African continent.
Zipline Ivory Coast: the funding model is the real story
Ten hubs, 12 million people, 2,200 health facilities — the scale is real. But the mechanism behind it deserves as much attention as the numbers.
The U.S. government puts up the infrastructure money upfront; Côte d'Ivoire's Ministry of Health commits to paying the running costs over the long term. That split matters enormously. It means this isn't foreign aid that evaporates when a grant cycle ends — it's a structure designed to hand the Ivorian government genuine ownership of the system.
For any African government watching, that's the template worth studying: catalytic outside capital to build, domestic commitment to sustain.