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Ivory Coast
Ouattara struggles to implement preference for national cacao suppliers

Ivory Coast has new rules that oblige international operators to award 20% of their cocoa bean supply contracts with confectionary manufacturers to Ivorian producers. But the sector's foreign giants have still dominated over local players in the 2021-2022 cocoa harvest.

Ivory Coast
Olam loses its cocao crown

The first buying period for the 2020-21 cocoa season ended on 31 March and initial results show a major rebalancing between the main buyers. Agri-business behemoth Olam lost the pole position it had held among buyers of Ivorian beans since 2016 to US firm Cargill West Africa.

Ivory Coast
Ouattara follows up on cocoa price increases with national preference quota plan

The big agricultural trading houses, which are still resisting the minimum pricing system introduced by Ivory Coast and Ghana last year, now risk seeing their share of the chocolate market reduced in favour of their Ivorian competitors.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business 08.02.2021

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara on World Cocoa Day, 1 October 2020.

Spotlight | Sudan
Biden, Macron and Johnson cosy up to sanctions-free Khartoum

Newly freed from the US sanctions that locked it out of the world's financial markets, Khartoum is set to make its international comeback. The next six months will see France, the UK, and the US jostle to become Sudan's leading partner, especially when it comes to debt restructuring.

Subscribers only Business 21.01.2021

Ivory Coast
Ouattara wants to bypass traders on the Chinese front

As it struggles to make cocoa traders pay the premium introduced last year in conjunction with Ghana, Ivory Coast is preparing to take its own steps in trading by opening a marketing office in China.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business 11.01.2021

Alassane Ouattara, on National Cocoa and Chocolate Day, in November 2020.

Ethiopia
Grain producers Soufflet and Boortmalt surf on waves of beer

Two of the world's biggest players in the transformation of barley into malt, the main ingredient in beer, are about to open new plants in Ethiopia, a country where the thirst for the drink is growing.

Subscribers only Business 22.12.2020

The barley processing plant in Boortmalt, Ethiopia, is scheduled to begin operations in January 2021.

Ivory Coast
Cacao giants battle with CCC, while 45,000 tonnes of beans wait outside Abidjan port

The head of the powerful coffee and cacao board Yves Brahima Koné has blocked over 1,200 cargos handled by Cargill, Olam and Barry Callebaut as a squabble over this season's cocoa price drags on.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business 03.12.2020

Ivory Coast
RHDP bigwig Youssouf Soumahoro sparks ire with weights and measures monopoly

Côte d'Ivoire Métrologie, the company of former minister Youssouf Soumahoro which has a monopoly on weights and measures throughout the country, has outraged farmers and the business community by sending its prices through the roof.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Business 21.10.2020

Ivory Coast
French banks lose out on cocoa business

The Conseil Café Cacao (CCC) is no longer holding its revenues with the Ivorian branches of French banks, preferring instead to use African establishments as a matter of course.

Subscribers only Finance, Commodity traders, Business 24.09.2020

Ivory Coast
Ouattara campaigns on cocoa price in Akan country

In his efforts to secure his re-election, the Ivorian president, who is due in Yamoussoukro next month, hopes to win over the Akan people, who are traditionally more inclined to vote for his rival Henri Konan Bédié, by subsidising the price of cocoa beans, the main crop in Akan counties.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Politics 17.09.2020

Spotlight | Morocco, United States
Morocco's OCP brings in new recruits to boost its North American fertiliser sales

Moroccan fertiliser giant OCP, which is facing competition in its African "home" market and regulatory problems in Europe, is expanding its management team in the United States in a bid to find new outlets and increase its sales in both the US and Canada.

Subscribers only Mining 10.07.2020

OCP phosphate mine at Boucraa, in the disputed territory of Western Sahara.

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Washington deal: intricacies behind Tshisekedi's poker move

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Namibia oil utopia hangs on TotalEnergies' final investment decision

Ivory Coast
Ouattara struggles to implement preference for national cacao suppliers

Ivory Coast
Olam loses its cocao crown

Ivory Coast
Ouattara follows up on cocoa price increases with national preference quota plan

Spotlight | Sudan
Biden, Macron and Johnson cosy up to sanctions-free Khartoum

Ivory Coast
Ouattara wants to bypass traders on the Chinese front

Ethiopia
Grain producers Soufflet and Boortmalt surf on waves of beer

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Cacao giants battle with CCC, while 45,000 tonnes of beans wait outside Abidjan port

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RHDP bigwig Youssouf Soumahoro sparks ire with weights and measures monopoly

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French banks lose out on cocoa business

Ivory Coast
Ouattara campaigns on cocoa price in Akan country

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Morocco's OCP brings in new recruits to boost its North American fertiliser sales

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Local cocoa traders squeezed out

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The palace dashes Saf Cacao's hopes

Angola
What Joao Lourenco came seeking from the French business world