Ivory Coast sells 400,000 tons of 2025/26 cocoa export contracts, sources say

“With the mid-harvest advancing by a month, we have a little more volume to sell, but we don’t have much left,” another official from the CCC told Reuters, adding that 400,000 tons is the entire estimated volume for the intermediate crop.

World briefs | Ivory Coast sells 400,000 tonnes of cocoa contracts to locals

Share current article via EmailShare current article via FacebookShare current article via TwitterShare current article via LinkedIn Abidjan — Ivory Coast’s Coffee and Cocoa Council has sold more than 400,000 tonnes of cocoa export contracts to local …

Amnesty calls on Ivory Coast to release 'unjustly arrested' election protesters

Amnesty International is calling on Ivory Coast to release of dozens of people arrested during protests linked to October’s presidential election. Alessane Ouattara won a contested fourth term after two leading opposition candidates were barred from …

Accra Professional Ladies Open: Ivory Coast’s Coulibaly Saajo wins competition

The Accra Professional Ladies Open Finals, held at the Backyard Court in Osu, attracted tennis enthusiasts from different parts of the world who gathered to witness Coulibaly Saajo win the all-women’s tennis tournament. Ivory Coast’s Coulibaly Saajo …

Healthy rains bode well for Ivory Coast cocoa mid-crop, farmers say

ABIDJAN, March 9 (Reuters) – Steady rainfall in many of Ivory Coast’s main cocoa-growing regions will produce enough small and average-sized pods to ensure a ​strong March-to-August mid-crop, farmers said on Monday. Ivory Coast, ‌the world’s top cocoa …

Chocolate gets pricier, but cocoa farmers in Ghana and Ivory Coast face payment delays

Cocoa beans rot in Ivory Coast after commodity crash

Sacks of dried cocoa beans sit unsold in homes and warehouses in the Ivorian village of Kouamé-Kouassikro, near Bouaflé, while farmers hold receipts instead of cash. A sharp fall in cocoa prices over the past year has left beans rotting in some West …

Ivory Coast women tap newfound freedom as rubber farm owners

Ivorian farmer Affoua Mea decided one day she’d had enough. Despite years cultivating rubber trees on the plantation inherited from her father, her brothers still held the purse strings. Last year, the 64-year-old bought her own piece of land thanks to an …

Ivory Coast: women tap into financial freedom through rubber tree farms

In Ivory Coast, only five percent of women own agricultural land. But this is changing: for many women, owning their own farms of rubber trees has become a way to achieve financial freedom. Ivorian farmer Affoua Mea decided one day she'd had enough. …

Ivory Coast: ASEC vs. Africa Sports derby headlines round of 16 in the national cup

The draw puts the two historic clubs face to face once again. Ivory Coast: ASEC vs. Africa Sports derby headlines round of 16 in the national cup The fixtures for the round of 16 in the Ivory Coast Cup have been revealed. The high-voltage derby between …