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Ivory Coast builds a wall to protect endangered urban park

Concerned about illegal logging and pollution in Banco National Park in Ivory Coast’s commercial capital Abidjan, authorities are erecting a concrete perimeter wall that they hope will preserve its distinctive.

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Sustaining the growth of Ghana’s Cocoa Industry

The first country that comes to mind when one thinks of cocoa in Africa is Ghana, the second-largest cocoa producer in the world after the Ivory Coast. It is estimated.

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EU lawmakers call for pact on cocoa prices with Ivory Coast and Ghana

A group of European Union, EU, parliamentarians have asked the European Commission to open negotiations with Ivory Coast and Ghana to address low cocoa prices, it said in a letter..

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Ivory Coast to auction cocoa crop in advance to guarantee price for season

Ivory Coast’s Cocoa Coffee Council (CCC) has decided to auction all of its cocoa production to exporters in advance in order to set a guaranteed price throughout the season for.

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Ivory Coast’s Ouattara Names Ex-PM as Vice-President

Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara named former Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan as vice-president, a new post created under a constitution approved by referendum late last year. Duncan, 73, an.

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Ivory Coast: President Says New Constitution Will Reinforce Social Cohesion

  By Emilie Iob Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara presented the draft of the new constitution to parliament Wednesday. Among the reforms is the removal of a clause that helped.

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Obama Lifts Sanctions against Ivory Coast, Citing Progress

  U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday lifted decade-old sanctions against Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest cocoa producer, citing a successful presidential election last year and its progress in tackling.

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Ivory Coast Evicts Thousands of Cocoa Farmers to Save Forests

  By Ange Aboa and Joe Bavier Before the morning mists had broken over Ivory Coast’s Mont Peko National Park, thousands of newly homeless cocoa farmers and their families began.

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World Cup 2014: Africa hopes to make impact

Africa will be represented at next year’s World Cup in Brazil by the same five teams that played in South Africa in 2010 and the hope is that their experience.

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