Ivory Coast

World Bank To Grant Ivory Coast Budget Aid As Cocoa Price Slumps

The World Bank will grant Ivory Coast $100 million to $125 million in budget support in the coming months as a sharp drop in cocoa prices hurts the finance...

Pothole Puddles Show Risk For Cocoa, With Record Ivorian Crop

The scores of giant potholes that scar the roads from commercial capital Abidjan to Daloa, in the heart of Ivory Coast’s cocoa belt, have become deep...

Cocoa Plunge, Mutinous Army May Widen Ivory Coast Deficit

Tumbling cocoa prices and unscheduled payments to civil servants and mutinous soldiers in the past two months could widen Ivory Coast’s budget defici...

Ivorian Cocoa Piles Up at Ports As Shippers Halt Purchases

Cocoa is piling up at ports and warehouses in Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest producer, after a plunge in futures prices prompted some exporters to...

World’s Biggest Cocoa Grower Is Wiping Out Its Rainforests

After disease ravaged his cocoa farm, Philippe Zongo walked into one of West Africa’s last remaining rainforests to hack out new acreage. Like tho...

Africa’s Biggest Cocoa Farm Takes Shape In Central Ivory Coast

In central-eastern Ivory Coast, a cocoa plantation that will be Africa’s biggest, spanning an area equal to about 3,000 soccer fields, is taking shap...

Cemoi Chocolate Sales In World No. 1 Cocoa Grower Beat Forecasts

French chocolate maker Cemoi Group said sales from its cocoa-processing plant in Ivory Coast exceeded forecasts in the operation’s first year as the...

Rains Bring Relief For Ivory Coast Cocoa Farms After Drought

A severe drought in West Africa that wrecked the Ivory Coast cocoa crop is giving way to some rainfall, bringing relief to farmers before the start of the...

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As Cities Swell, West Africa’s Appetite For Rice Is Growing

Cocoa Crunch Drives Spreads Higher As Traders Feel Shortage

Carrefour Opens First Ivory Coast Hypermarket

Ouattara Says Ivory Coast to Supply 50% Global Cocoa by 2020

Dryness Threatens Ivorian Cocoa as Rain Brings ‘Minimal’ Relief

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