Ivory Coast
Foreign cocoa exporter success fuels local discontent

A bag of cocoa beans stamped "Conseil du café-cacao" in Ivory Coast.
A bag of cocoa beans stamped "Conseil du café-cacao" in Ivory Coast. © REUTERS
The major foreign traders were the winners in Ivory Coast's main cocoa bean harvest that has just ended. This has heightened tension between the big players such as Cargill and local exporters, who blame foreign competitors for their supply difficulties. [...]
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