Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast, Ghana Said To Seek $1.2 Billion Loan For Cocoa

The cocoa regulators of the world’s two biggest producers are in talks with the African Development Bank about a $1.2 billion loan that will be used...

Cocoa Jumps As Unrest Continues In Top Producer Ivory Coast

Cocoa extended its biggest weekly gain in five years after talks between army commanders and mutinous soldiers in the world’s top producer Ivory Coas...

Ivory Coast Cuts Budget As Cocoa Decline Slashes Export Earnings

Ivory Coast cut its budget after the slump in cocoa prices cost the West African nation’s economy 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in lost export earni...

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...