Instead, the weapons now come from African countries with weak control of their own weapons stockpiles, notably the Central African Republic and Ivory Coast. Sudan has also been an important ...
Cocoa prices have hit record highs over the past year because of poor crops in the world’s two biggest producers, Ivory Coast and Ghana ... COCOBOD pays for the beans. However, sources at ...
Cocoa was the best-performing commodity ... just when they need the cash the most. Both Ivory Coast and Ghana forward-sell the next season’s beans and set the price that farmers receive, called ...
Heavy rain in the Ivory Coast has also flooded fields, increased disease risk, and affected crop quality. Recently harvested cocoa beans from the Ivory Coast signal lower quality, with counts of ...